“What’s the matter with you, sergeant?” Inspector Tembo asks as soon as I come to work. In front, an old man dressed in traditional attire, a necklace made of bones, an ostrich feather head-dress, carrying several gourds and a fly whisk. “We’ve heard the news of an unclean death,” the old man says. “As the village medicine man, it's my duty to cleanse the village of this evil. “The dead man entered once.”The old man steps into the cell.

Source: The Star August 30, 2020 03:00 UTC