Witchcraft and Loss of Justice in the Central African Republic: The Use of "Local Knovviedge" and Theogonies in the Courts

Although the witchcraft trials in Africa raise epistemological problems largely underlined by the studies of the last fifty years, it remains that they rely equally today on new factual presuppositions, powerfully valued within international political and scientist spaces. In the light of cases taken from the Central African Republic, the article is part of a discussion on the interactions between the treatment of the sorcery phenomenon by state justice and certain ethical and political judgments due to internationally promoted theories.