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205. The child sacrifices of Africa

heretics.

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today is really quite an impactful and emotional episode, so I do warn you that we talk about some really gruesome things today, and it’s up to you whether you want to hear about that on this fine sunny or grey drizzly day or night, or wherever you are. Annie Ikpa is a hero to me, because she fought to end child sacrifice in Uganda. Annie Ikpa links: https://www.childrenontheedge.org Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.7

I think that this is a business. There are those who are not just in Uganda, but various different countries in Africa and in India too, who have realized that there is big, big money in convincing people that sacrificing a child will make them rich. Children are murdered for money.

0:21.6

Today is really quite an impactful and emotional episode so I do warn you that we talk

0:26.8

about some really gruesome things and it's up to you whether you want to hear about that

0:31.4

on this fine sunny day or grisly gray day or night or wherever you

0:36.2

are however it is. Aniqba is a hero to me because she fought to end child sacrifice in

0:42.1

Uganda. That's what we're talking about today.

0:44.0

I didn't know the practice even took place until I stumbled upon Annie's work

0:47.5

and invited her on the podcast. For various reasons it ended up taking a few months

0:51.5

to get this out there there but it's such an

0:53.3

important subject that I really did want to cover it and I'm glad that I managed to

0:57.2

get this out on the podcast. Annie is a freelance TV editor and she was the

1:01.3

instigator of the bill to change things in Uganda after having

1:04.8

experiences there that alerted her to the way that families and certain rogue

1:09.6

individuals were going about sacrificing children.

1:13.0

Go to Children on the Edge.org to read more about the inside story of their five-year fight,

1:18.0

seven years for Annie in total to change the law.

1:21.0

Annie Igber is a wonderful speaker, very passionate about her work and she's

1:24.6

been a joy to work with. You can watch a video she did about this subject on Ladd Bible's

1:28.9

YouTube channel as well. Episodes are coming up on the podcast with Holly

1:33.0

Laurent to talk about her film work and life growing up

1:35.5

evangelical, the second part to the Robbie Williams episode

1:39.1

and an interview with Australian female psychopath Canika Batra. But now you're on the edge of

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