By David Maillu
Published August 28, 2023
In traditional Africa a witch is anyone who employs any substance to harm or kill someone else. Armed with destructive materials, witches go out bearing evil eyes. Their witchcraft is clinical witchcraft, a knowledge they learn at a cost. In other words, witchcraft is their gun for self-protection and for hunting. They are free to train anyone in the trade. In any the community they remain dangerous people.
The social workshop of the African is full of discoveries and inventions of good and dangerous things, which include poisonous materials which can be used to harm or kill others. The traditional Africa has high and wide knowledge of botany and biology from where they discover and invent lethal poisons in the name of witchcraft. These are biochemical substances with a wide range.
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Traditional biochemistry manufactures love charms, anti-conception poisons, herbs for causing mental confusion and disorientation, herbs for turning someone into a zombie, materials for creating family disturbance and deception, killing poisons, anti-snake bites and so on. Just as there are weapon manufacturers who don’t use what they manufacture, there are also witchcraft manufacturers for commercial purposes. If you want to destroy or kill someone, you go to buy the killing material from the manufacturers.
Once upon a time, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania narrated a case in which when he was a school boy, he accompanied his aunt to see an uncle. Upon finishing their visit, the uncle gave Nyerere and his aunt a goat to take home with them. But the leashed goat refused being taken away. It did so by doing dangerous acrobatics until Nyerere said, “I will not take the goat with me.” The uncle said, “You will, after I have treated it.” For treatment the uncle uprooted as crop of Nyerere’s hair, after which he got some hair from the goat, then walked into the nearby woods from where he picked up some plant leaves. He mixed them and used a stone to grind them together. He gave the goat the concoction and the goat ate it quickly after which the uncle said, “Take your goat home.” The goat, like a dog, almost followed them.
One would easily call the uncle a witch, but the uncle had simply used the biochemistry knowledge he had inherited, with which to tame the goat. In parts of Ukambani, when you are confronted by pest birds or monkeys destroying your crop, you go to see an expert. The expert tells you, “Kill one of the birds and bring it to me.” For monkey he says, “Bring a crop leftover by the monkey.” The expert uses biochemistry skill upon the pest samples and from there you will not hear of your crop having been touched.
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Traditional biochemists, you may want to call witches, know what to do to stop lions from attacking livestock. In his book, African Religion and Philosophy, the late John Mbiti reports of a case he witnessed when he was a school boy. His area was struck by locust invasion. The locusts ate every green thing edible. But after the locusts left a report reached him that the locusts had not touched any crop of a certain old man somewhere far. He walked the distance to confirm what he heard and found it was true. The locusts had left an island of crops around the home absolutely untouched. Mbiti lived to remember the phenomenon without the explanation of what the man used to keep the locusts off. Obviously, the old man was not a witch but someone with biochemistry knowledge, with which to ward off locusts. Finally, the man died with that knowledge.
No Mukamba home has never heard of the story of “mbingo” a biochemical material used by experts to safeguard thieves from stealing anything from the homestead. Traditional biochemistry has the arsenal for blocking a wife from adultery. In the Akamba biochemistry workshop there is material for smart wives who want to suspend their husband from having erection if he goes to a particular woman. There is material for suspending girls from conception until they get married. There is material for setting you against your family or driving you away from home. There is material for recalling lost people to come home. All this is not fiction but applied science.
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Among Akamba, one of the deadliest poisons that witches use to kill their competitors is called “nziki” a powder made out of dried crocodile bile. A plant called “mbongolo” is used to create insanity. For your own information, the roots of the “kunde” whose leaves you love for vegetable is deadly.
For those who don’t know, the human body is a source of materials for witches. In biochemistry, for instance, a concoction of sweat harvested from the special and extra-long clitoris mixed, with dried leaves of a plant in Kikamba known as kithiia, given to a man turns him into a permanent zombie. Menstrual blood is an invaluable material for concocting witchcraft stuff.
Operating from the traditional biochemistry workshop, it is common knowledge that, for a witch to attack or destroy you, she needs certain items from you which she can use to manufacture the material with which to destroy you. Witches are famous in collecting personal materials from victims, which include hair, nails, saliva, menstruation blood, sperms, private items such as underwear, shoes, handkerchief, bones, urine, also soil on which you have stepped upon barefoot and other items. All these items ARE THE SAME MATERIALS used in science to extract the DNA of the victim. In other words, traditional biochemistry has the knowledge of how to manipulate your DNA to get you. The DNA of the body of the killed prey bird is used in traditional biochemistry to reach the prey birds. The leftover material of the monkey carries the monkey’s DNA. All the mentioned items above are the same materials used in feeding the hunter dog with information to get you. The dog, which knows no witchcraft, simply makes use of the personal charges in the items to trace you down.
What is called DNA “Deoxyribonucleic acid” is a very small molecule containing the biological instructions that make each species unique. DNA is passed from adult organisms to their offspring during reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has got the same DNA and the DNA is the only molecule capable of reproducing itself. In sexual reproduction, organisms inherit half of their nuclear DNA from the male parent and half from the female parent.
The technologically developed world hasn’t yet reached the stage of manipulating your DNA to communicate with you or destroy you. Traditional African knowledge has reached that stage.
