The Ugandan Police is hunting traditional healers who kidnap children to sacrifice them. And it's fighting against the greed of a new middle class, which rely on magic rituals to get richer.
Child Sacrifice in Uganda
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I was honored and pleased when Stephen Ward asked me to give this talk. It’s a subject close to home, this question of how we maintain journalism standards in the midst of profound journalism change
This is a story that will challenge consciences and emotions.
Merco Vernaschi, for the Pulitzer Center
(Editor's note at end of post)
Richard Omongole, a Ugandan lawyer and former country director for Amnesty International, is legal adviser to the Gideon Foundation, a small organization that was founded by the father of a child who was killed during a ritual sacrifice.
Marco Vernaschi's Pulitzer Center-funded project on child sacrifice has generated fierce criticism, directed both toward
Job opportunities were low in Kampala so when a friend offered Paul Odida a job in South Africa the prospect of some money was encouraging. He sold his car, left Kampala on a bus, and headed for Johannesburg. What Paul didn’t know was that the job was to work as a “traditional healer”. Ugandan traditional healers are renowned throughout much of Africa as experts, but Paul had no idea of what the work was about.
Marco Vernaschi, for the Pulitzer Center
Katugwe, Uganda
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Pulitzer Center grantee Marco Vernaschi reports on the popularity of child sacrifices among witchdoctors in Uganda.
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Marco Vernaschi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1973, and he's currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He's currently working on a large, long-term project about the phenomenon of child witches,...
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Sebastiano Vitale was born in Turin, Italy in 1975. He has been working for several years in the media world both in experimental web-art and in mainstream production.
In 2009 he launched his long-...