Public Health and Spiritual Afflictions in Africa and the Diaspora

This book examines the paradox whereby spiritual afflictions (conditions attributed to ancestors, jinns, spirits, witchcraft, and other intangible entities) remain central to everyday therapeutic worlds in Africa and the diaspora, yet are routinely sidelined or rendered invisible in official public health policies and global health agendas.

Drawing on ethnographic research in Cameroon, Congo, Côte...