I don’t know that he’s directly responsible for “rocking” churches and introducing Satanism to the people of Malawi, but I find it interesting that, after my friend Pete had spent a week there, this is the headline that would grace the front page of the nation’s largest paper.
Pete, for those of you who don’t know him, used to make ungodly loud music.
Now, though, he’s a PhD student, studying epidemiology and the international delivery of health care.
To read about his adventures in Malawi, which, sadly, have little to do with spreading the word of Satan through heavy metal, click here, here, here or here. It’s really interesting stuff.
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I very much enjoyed Pete’s site. Thank you for the link.
It’s good to see that Pete made it out of rock and roll alive.
Satanism scares are unfortunately common in Malawi.
http://theisticsatanism.com/asp/cases/Malawi.html
See also:
Eat do poo poo
http://markmaynard.com/?p=8926
Africa is fucked.
I blame Madonna.
I blame the Americans who are funding them.
And I’ve said it before, but I really think we’ll see a time again in America where people are killed due to being labeled witches. I just hope I’m long gone by the time that happens.
I loved reading Pete’s blog posts re. the trip to Malawi. Thank you, thank you. There’s an excellent African music podcast available on iTunes at “Radio Africa Online mixes.” Am gonna check if the DJ ever features music from Malawi. Has some delicious hour-long shows–dance floor filler, Arab music, Haitian melodies, swe-e-e-et Ethiopian tunes, hip hop from Ghana, and so so so much good stuff. (The Haitian music podcast gets scratchy for just a little while around the middle.)
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