ABSTRACT
But the opposite appeared to have happened. Survivors of a famine in Malawi recalled that the goats they sold to buy food turned into snakes when their new owners took them home;4 Africans in colonial Northern Rhodesia who opposed federation with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia believed that sugar had been poisoned by the English “House of Laws” to sap their will;5 guerrillas in Zimbabwe’s war of liberation not only believed in spirit mediums, they claimed to have been supplied with goods by their ancestors’ spirits.6
