Columnist: LEO IGWE

The Treacherous Notion of Insulting Religious Sensibilities

May 16, 2022 | Feature Article

I have been campaigning vigorously for the release of Mubarak Bala, who has been jailed for insulting the religious ...

Deborah Samuel was brutally killed by fellow Muslim students in her college, images via Twitter

The Killing of Nigerian Christian Student Has Everything to Do With Religion

May 13, 2022 | Feature Article

Humanists are outraged by the gruesome murder of a female college student in Sokoto in Northern Nigeria. Such a horr ...

Critical Thinking and New Purpose for Primary Education in Africa

May 11, 2022 | Feature Article

The e-learning Africa conference presents an opportunity to rethink and reposition the learning system in the region ...

Agege Bread Message: Christians and Muslims Who Allege Blasphemy Are Ignorant

Apr 25, 2022 | Feature Article

Allegations of blasphemy by Muslim and Christian believers have been in the news. In the past few years, persons acc ...

Nigerian Humanists Are Outraged Over Sentencing of Mubarak Bala for Blasphemy

Apr 7, 2022 | Feature Article

The Humanist community in Nigeria is utterly shocked by the sentencing of Mubarak Bala for lsquo;blasphemy rsquo;. ...

Gouging out Child's Eye Illustrates Viciousness of Ritual Beliefs

Mar 31, 2022 | Feature Article

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches(AfAW) condemns the ritual attack and abuse of a child in Kano, in northern Nigeria. ...

Police: Bring to Justice Killers of Mgboebuba Nwankwo in Enugu

Mar 26, 2022 | Feature Article

On January 26, an advocate sent a message to the Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) urging it to investigate a case ...

To End Witch hunts, Exoticism and Romanticism of African Witchcraft Must Stop

Mar 12, 2022 | Feature Article

Attacks and killings linked to witchcraft beliefs persist in Africa. In Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya ...

Witchcraft Imputation and Cruelty to Animals in Africa

Feb 22, 2022 | Feature Article

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) condemns the torture, ill-treatment of animals in the name of witchcraft acr ...

Witch-hunting At Funerals: Time to End Traditional Autopsy, Corpse Bearing and P...

Feb 15, 2022 | Feature Article

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches calls for an immediate end to witch-finding activities during funerals in Africa. T ...

Two Years of Advocacy Against Witch Persecution in Africa

Jan 18, 2022 | Feature Article

Two years ago, the Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) campaign was launched. This initiative was put in place to ta ...

Knowledge, Understanding, and Interfaith-Belief Dialogue in Nigeria

Nov 19, 2021 | Feature Article

As delegates from faith and no faith communities are preparing to meet and dialogue in Abuja, it is pertinent to emp ...

Dialogue and Interfaith-belief Communications in Nigeria

Nov 15, 2021 | Feature Article

Dialogue is imperative to improving relations between people of various faiths and none. Too often, religion has bee ...

Approbation and Reprobation Hamper Advocacy Against Witch Persecution in Africa

Nov 11, 2021 | Feature Article

Members of the elite in Nigeria must stop approbating and reprobating the reality of witchcraft. Educated Nigeria ...

Adamawa Chief Judge: Sanction Abdulrazaq Adamu and Other Witch-Hunting Judges an...

Nov 8, 2021 | Feature Article

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) urges the chief judge of Adamawa to sanction Chief Magistrate Abdulrazaq Ada ...

Witch persecution and Public Enlightenment in Southeast Nigeria

Nov 1, 2021 | Feature Article

Abuses linked to witchcraft and ritual money beliefs are rampant in society because no effective measures have been ...

About Author
Leo Igwe is a Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist. Igwe is a former Western and Southern African representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and has specialized in campaigning against and documenting the impacts of child witchcraft accusations.