The Memoir of a White Witch
In September 2018, a 24-year-old graduate of Philosophy from the University of Abuja, Nigeria, Jasini Geidam, embarked on a life changing journey to the twin towns of Eket in Akwa Ibom State and Igarra in Edo State respectively.
It has been said that people tend to fear the things they do not understand. And what people do not understand, they speculate about or even attack. Jasini’s encounter with the condemned child ‘witches’ of Eket and a lone, mysterious, aged Igarra woman opened his eyes to certain truths about eccentric people, and then transformed him into the very thing he feared the most. That thing that everyone fears…
And right before his very eyes, a strange story, of beliefs and cultural practices that led to the gross abuse of persons, of man’s inhumanity to man, greed, betrayal, retributive justice and an unbelievable kind of revenge, unfolded…
This is not a horror story; it is a story of horror…
It has been said that people tend to fear the things they do not understand. And what people do not understand, they speculate about or even attack. Jasini’s encounter with the condemned child ‘witches’ of Eket and a lone, mysterious, aged Igarra woman opened his eyes to certain truths about eccentric people, and then transformed him into the very thing he feared the most. That thing that everyone fears…
And right before his very eyes, a strange story, of beliefs and cultural practices that led to the gross abuse of persons, of man’s inhumanity to man, greed, betrayal, retributive justice and an unbelievable kind of revenge, unfolded…
This is not a horror story; it is a story of horror…
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