Afa Zā ŋunpaƔ Nyu BuƔli (Any Person Who Allows His Wife to Drink the Potion for Exorcism)

This chapter discusses the poem “Afa ZaŋunpaƔ Nyu BuƔli,” which covers witches, witch hunters, and exorcism that assumed the name of nana . It retells the story of an elderly Ashanti woman who arrived in Tamale claiming to hunt down witches and exorcise them. It also mentions how witch hunters and their supporters would subject the accused elderly women to beatings and claim to exorcise them by giving them a potion to drink and shaving their heads. The chapter details how Afa Ajura objected and mounted spirited attacks on several fronts of the nana business, including on the local chiefs and the clerics. It cites Afa Ajura's passing of a juristic verdict for anyone who drinks the exorcist potion: that two-month fasting becomes obligatory.