To learn Obeah, you need to find someone who knows it who is willing to teach you. Something happened in the African community where people like Papa Voncujovi and Efe West came out with authentic modes of Afroscientific spirituality, so we kind of gravitated that way for the most part.…
The reason Obeah has such a scary reputation is that like many systems under the category of “Voodoo” or African diaspora spirituality, it was forged in blood. African history did not begin with slavery, nor did African American history. Slavery was not something that African Americans as a group, accepted…
The term “Obeah” refers to a category of sorcery, spirituality, and “folk medicine” of people from the West Indies and Caribbean islands and surrounding areas. These practices made their way into the U.S. and show up often along the east coast, but they originated in the islands. To learn more,…
Part of the reason is that most people who identify themselves as “white” either don’t believe in it, or believe their thought policing religion protects them from it. What they don’t know is that most things classed as “Obeah” or “Voodoo” (African or other indigenous practices that have begun to…
