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How fear of 'witchcraft' is ruining young lives in Nigeria aje.io/kjmdp
Children in the Niger Delta branded as witches, suffer beatings, starvation, and are even set on fire aje.io/mapf2
More than 15,000 children across the Niger Delta have been branded as witches over the last decade.

This graphic novel tells their stories: aje.io/a3dfd
'Suffer not a witch to live.'

Many self-proclaimed prophets in Nigeria have commodified 'child witchcraft' through costly exorcisms aje.io/a3dfd
Some Nigerian Pentecostal leaders have emulated their American televangelist counterparts - to deliver children from 'witchcraft' aje.io/a3dfd
Nollywood - the Nigerian film industry- is also blamed for reinforcing beliefs in witchcraft.

Following the release of 'End of the Wicked'- there was a surge in witchcraft accusations against children aje.io/a3dfd
In 2008, Nigeria made witch-branding punishable. 10 years on, courts have yet to successfully prosecute a single perpetrator aje.io/wlvn8
"She heated up a knife in the fire and put it on me."

From unruly behaviour to failed harvest, witchcraft accusations are used in Nigeria to scapegoat vulnerable children. This graphic novel tells their story: aje.io/k7pj5
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