Witchdoctors: A Day in the Other Africa

This new film from Brooklyn librarian/documentary filmmaker Boniface Wewe aims to show viewers the “other” Africa, full of life and culture, as opposed to the stereotyped images of poverty and corruption often presented on the evening news.

Filmed in West Central and South Africa, the film features footage of people working, a performance of a traditional song by an award-winning high school boys choir, and an interview with the Prime Minister to the King of the Zulu Nation. The bulk of the program, however, is comprised of a day spent with a community of sangomas, or traditional healers, who train together in an apprentice system under an experienced practitioner.