Grijspaarde’s article addresses how practices of witchcraft influences Sierra Leone’s politics, economy, and poverty alleviation. One observation noted in this study was that the practice of witchcraft rose proportionally with the rise of capitalism. While western media have conditioned our minds to conjure witchcraft as a satanic ritual, part of the qualitative data reveals that witchcraft was used to fill in the “uncertainties reflecting unresolved social conflict over norms”(Grijspaarde 2012). It was interesting to read the gravity of influence in which witchcraft played in a community setting. According to the article, even educated judges believed in witches. It was under these settings that just about anyone could be labelled as a witch.
