Faith-Based Violence Is Not Faith. It’s Femicide: A Timeline of Religious-Based Violence in Africa

In 2011, Jostina Sangweni, a 59-year-old woman living with schizophrenia, was dragged from her home in South Africa. Her neighbors accused her of witchcraft. They beat her, tied her up, and burned her alive. Just over a decade later, in 2022, a 22-year-old Nigerian student named Deborah Samuel was stoned to death by her classmates. […]