Breaking news: Kenyan University Launches Degree in Witchcraft

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Breaking news: Kenyan University Launches Degree in Witchcraft

Kenyan university launches degree in Witchcraft . The University of Machakos is expected to launch a Witchcraft Degree

The University of Machakos is expected to launch a Witchcraft Degree, setting a milestone as the second institution in the world to give the same.

Speaking during the launch, the Vice-Chancellor said that tens of students had already been drawn by the course and the University planned to leverage local capital to make the course a success.

In the greater Machakos County, we have a lot of indigenous expertise that can be harnessed for the benefit of society and this is the first step towards incorporating this knowledge. We hope that this course will help young people and the younger generation so that valuable historical and cultural knowledge is not missed. Kenyan university launches degree in Witchcraft to help students to study and have a degree in witchcraft

The four-year course, scheduled to be launched in April 2021, will be held under the auspices of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and is subject to acceptance by the University Education Board.

With lecturers from Kenya and other areas, such as Zanzibar, Haiti and Mexico, the course will include various approaches. It would be a residential course so Covid-19 should not be frightened of an inexperienced Witch, with many courses being held at night.

Although specifics of the units in the course were not published by the University, sources told us that the course will have 2 attachments where students in the Eastern African region will be attached to active and practicing witches. The course graduates will have to develop their own private practice and help deal with advanced issues away from the normal ‘nguvu za kiume, biashara, kazi, mke kutoroka na kushika mwizi.’ Kenyan university launches degree in Witchcraft to help students to study and have a degree in witchcraft. Kenyan university launches degree in Witchcraft to help students to study and have a degree in witchcraft

Public Reception

The news attracted varied responses from individuals, some calling it a joke and some believing that related classes like witches, such as Organic Chemistry, are taught at the university.

The Board of Higher Education Loans has also agreed to finance the new course, saying that due to the enormous forces they have, graduates from the course will not be expected to repay their loan. Kenyan university launches degree in Witchcraft to help students to study and have a degree in witchcraft



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Multiple articles and widely shared social media posts have alleged that Kenya’s Machakos University is launching a degree in witchcraft. But this is false: AFP Fact Check found the story stems from a satirical website. The university has also refuted the claim and there is no such course listed on its official website.

Facebook posts here and here have been shared more than 1,500 times since December 20, 2020. 

“Witchcraft course launched in Kenyan Varsity: Machakos University has introduced Bachelor's Degree In Witchcraft yesterday,” one caption reads.

A screenshot of the false Facebook post taken on February 4, 2021

A basic internet search shows that the claims originated from a December 18, 2020 article on satirical website PostaMate, headlined: “Machakos University Launches A Bachelor’s Degree In Witchcraft”. 

While the website is clearly described as a “home of satire and sarcasm”, the subsequent social media posts and articles presented the claims as factual.

A screenshot of the satirical article on PostaMate taken on February 4, 2021

The website tweeted the blog with the following caption: “Machakos University has remained true to its roots; now introducing a degree in witchcraft.”

The tweet did not carry a satire disclaimer, potentially raising the risk that some could interpret the story as factually accurate.

Witchcraft is a strong part of Machakos County’s history -- research papers here and here detail some of the region’s past which could explain why this university was the subject of the rumour.

A 2011 African studies textbook, for example, explains how in the mid-1950s in Machakos, colonial authorities tried to cleanse the practice by requesting that Kamba witches and witch doctors publicly renounce witchcraft and surrender their paraphernalia to be burned.

“In return, witches and witch doctors could expect amnesty from the government and a clean slate from their neighbors”, the book’s summary reads.

University not offering courses in witchcraft 

The Kenyan university -- on its official Facebook page linked to its website -- posted a screenshot of the satirical article with a banner labeling it “fake” on December 20, 2020.

Machakos University spokesman Adam Shisia told AFP Fact Check that the institution was not offering a course in witchcraft.

He said it was a misinterpretation of a unit in a Master’s course which was “captured wrongly as a course by the media and wrongly escalated as so”.

"The unit exists in a course but there is no course in which you will say that a student will graduate in a degree in witchcraft," Shisha said.

He added that the curricula of most universities across the world have units in art courses referring to witchcraft -- “but they are not said to be offering courses in witchcraft”. 

A search of “witchcraft” on the university website shows a Masters of Arts course called “Religion, Witchcraft, Magic, and Science”.

AFP Fact Check found examples of similar courses in Canada, Australia, and the United States.

 

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