Music : SOS Over Growing Scars Of Witchcraft

Believe it or not, witchcraft is real. And the impact on victims can be devastating. Very devastating! In many Cameroonian communities - and in Africa in general - the problem of witchcraft has in recent years attained alarming proportions. The situation has been compounded by the raging civil conflict in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions of North West and South West that has claimed thousands of lives. Displacing hundreds of thousands of others.
So serious is the problem that an artiste, Kinang Seidu Nfor, also known as Ben Zolo, has devoted a song to the killing spree. Entitled “Bloody Land,” the master single was released in December 2019. Ben Zolo, who hails from Jirt in Ndu Subdivision, Donga-Mantung Division of the North West Region, in the Zouk-like track done in Limbum language, revisits the scars left on community people by the heinous practice of witchcraft. 
He recounts the growing incidents of lynching to death and public executions by some Ambazonian fighters of people allegedly accused of involvement in sorcery. As a result, more young people are dying today than their elders, a situation the artiste partly attributes to witchcraft. 
Amongst the heart-rending lyrics of “Bloody Land” are sentences such as: “People are being killed for nothing!” “Witchcraft is destroying us, tearing us apart,” “Pick up your Bibles and preach the Word of God!” “Wimbum people, ...