Records [Photo: Shutterstock] It is difficult to believe either the reality of witchcraft or the common rumour that the practice performs miracles in Africa. Witch doctors were powerless as everybody else was in face of colonialism, yet there is no doubt that a real witch doctor would not have hesitated to put their powers to use and done something decisive against colonial brutality, such as commanding all the bees in Africa to sting the coloniser. Hence, it is possible that witchcraft is just another sophisticated con art similar to African politics. This is the same false hope that cultural analysts give about our popular art as expressed in their opinion published elsewhere in the Kenyan press, when much still needs to change.