Nadel's article titled Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison (1952), he talks of how the Nupe have a concrete belief in witchcraft that include the perception of "witchcraft as unequivocally evil, as destroying life, mainly through mysterious wasting diseases, and as implying the power of witches to eat' the life-soul' of their victims- (p.18). ... Nadel (1952) states: The economic position of the Nupe wives, many of whom are successful itinerant traders, is generally much better then that of their peasant husbands. ... Witchcraft thus was perceived ...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a c...

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