DRC: Voodoo wrestling, a popular night of entertainment in Kinshasa


Kinshasa (AFP) – ‘Catch-fetiche,’ or voodoo wrestling is a wildly over-the-top Congolese sport where participants fight each other and use magic to try to win the match. To get ready, fighters prepare incantations to use in the ring or commune with their ‘spectres’ or ‘fetishes’, animals or objects that they believe to be imbued with magical powers or inhabited by a spirit.

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