| dc.description.abstract | Magic is a word connected in use and action with witch and sorcery and practice of both ‘’Simple’’ and “High”magic or sorcery is associated with diabolic witchcrafcy has and continue to be a paradox, practiced by many communities in Sub – Saharan Africa, its objective by witches/ wizards to cause misfortune or kill the targeted victims, humans, livestock or plants Despite teachings, inculturation and governments teachings of good societal morals geared for social change for development and progress, witchcrafcy has persistently continued to spread among African communities and has caused psychosomatic suffering and poverty among African people. The objective of this paper is to identify prevalence, beliefs, knowledges and magical- witchcrafcy practices, meckamzm, and natural phenomena in communication with supernatural phenomena among communities in Kenya. There is the problem, Who? How? and by what means natural powers interlinked with witches/ wizards to cause or reverse outcome of witchcrafcy? The answer as we shall demonstrate in this paper is communication identifies by relating with each other or with supernatural powers if any, to cause harm by exchange of messages. It is undispensable to social changes, human negative influence in the direction of social and economic development and leads to increasing poverty levels among communities in Kenya. The paper will demonstrate that the preference and practice of magic/ witchcrafcy among majority of ethnic and classes of communities in Kenya is high. | en_US |
