nga to protect them, (Geschiere, chapter 1 : 22). These politicians also knew that the influence that the nganga had could and have influenced the political development and thus the political action of the people. In one case the civil servants accused the villagers of using witchcraft to undermine the government projects; this is one way to find an excuse why the project failed. Which is more strange is that the villagers themselves now believe that the state officials are also now using witchcraft in their pursuit to become rich and powerful (Geschiere, chapter 1 : 5). For Cameroon jeune Afrique observed that multiparty politics leads to growing insecurity that in makes people res!
             ort to the invisible. According to the Washington Post the lifting of Apartheid in South Africa has a similar effect. The problem seemed to be that as soon as a new political space was opening it is overrun by rumors about the use of witchcraft and sorcery. For Africa it seems practically inevitable that each new political innovation confronts the narrow between the power of the occult. Democracy in Africa can only succeed if it is based upon the local culture where in it is meant to function. If the people of the country feels threatened and dominated, this is the problem that the Cameroon government is facing at the moment. Parallels can be drawn between the west and Africa, the Kennedy murder in the USA, a lot of controversy surrounded the murder and lots of roomer floated in the air, no one knows for sure what happened and why the president was shot. Could it be the cause of witchcraft?
             In South Africa the power of witchcraft was used to a great success in the rural areas where the belief in witchcraft is the strongest. People was basically forced to conform their values and norms or be labeled a witch. The people who now was accused of being witches now possessed the power to use the witchcraft to their own political advant
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