I’m missing Karl Stefanovic at the moment. In Arusha I wake up every day to the shrieking sounds of exorcisms. My host family is very religious, and our Dada (maid) is addicted to Emmanuel TV, a cray cray Christian television network with a morning show dedicated to a Nigerian ‘prophet’ who beats the evil spirits out of his god-suffering lambs. To crowds of thousands, the prophet summons the afflicted (usually women) to the stage to perform his purification.
From what I can gather, it goes something like this:
The selected believer clambers forward and collapses at the prophet’s feet, emitting a sort of pre-wail to the tortured experience to follow. The prophet then coaxes his subject to share the manifestations of her demons to the audience, which she does, with a great deal of trembling and whimpering. Signs of evil range from whinging wives, to women with irregular menstruations. In case the broadcast audience cannot grasp how depraved these souls really are, the sins are also communicated as subtitles.
As the prophet repeats the manifestations for the crowd in a booming voice, the believers start to show us that they are indeed possessed. The trembling takes over their entire bodies, and the wailing become hysterical. Their eyes roll backwards and their arms flail wildly around their heads. They fall to the floor and experience violent seizures, so the prophet will often strike them several times to really bash out the evil, and screech at Jesus to save them.
It’s pretty intense. In the top left corner of the screen there is an African equivalent of a 1800 TO PRAY number. I'm guessing it's not Jesus on the end of the line and the per minute rate could bring on many of the physical reactions described above. Call it blasphemy but I’d say this prophet is making a tidy profit..
From what I can gather, it goes something like this:
The selected believer clambers forward and collapses at the prophet’s feet, emitting a sort of pre-wail to the tortured experience to follow. The prophet then coaxes his subject to share the manifestations of her demons to the audience, which she does, with a great deal of trembling and whimpering. Signs of evil range from whinging wives, to women with irregular menstruations. In case the broadcast audience cannot grasp how depraved these souls really are, the sins are also communicated as subtitles.
As the prophet repeats the manifestations for the crowd in a booming voice, the believers start to show us that they are indeed possessed. The trembling takes over their entire bodies, and the wailing become hysterical. Their eyes roll backwards and their arms flail wildly around their heads. They fall to the floor and experience violent seizures, so the prophet will often strike them several times to really bash out the evil, and screech at Jesus to save them.
It’s pretty intense. In the top left corner of the screen there is an African equivalent of a 1800 TO PRAY number. I'm guessing it's not Jesus on the end of the line and the per minute rate could bring on many of the physical reactions described above. Call it blasphemy but I’d say this prophet is making a tidy profit..
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