Advocacy for Alleged Witches

Safe Child Africa is proud to support Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW).

Dr. Leo Igwe, Founder & CEO of AfAW

Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) works and campaigns to defend the rights and dignity of alleged witches and end all forms of human rights abuses linked to witchcraft allegations, both in Nigeria and other African countries. AfAW uses a secular, humanist, skeptical and human rights approach to examine witchcraft narratives and address related abuses.

Dr Igwe, Founder and CEO of AfAW, is a board member of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and of Humanists International. He holds a masters in philosophy and a doctoral degree in religious studies from the University of Bayreuth in Germany and wrote his doctoral thesis on witchcraft accusations in Northern Ghana.

Dr. Igwe has written and campaigned extensively about witchcraft accusations and he, like our own SCA founder, has faced threats, legal challenges and worse due to his championing of innocent people, including children, who stand accused of witchcraft.

What is the history of our working together? Why does it matter?

Safe Child Africa provides funding, support and capacity building to enable AfAW to EDIT IMAGES AND INFO BELOW:

What are we doing together now?

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AfAW is now halfway through their Decade of Activism against Witch Persecution in Africa: 2020-2030. The main objective of this initiative is to create a witch hunting free Africa by sensitizing Africans on witch hunting and spearheading the advocacy for alleged witches in Africa.

You can find out more and support this by following AfAW’s website, or Facebook Group, or make a donation below to enable us to continue supporting their work into the future.