Machoko, Collis Garikai (2013). Albinism: a life of ambiguity – a Zimbabwean experience. African Identities, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp.318–333. doi: 10.1080/14725843.2013.838896
When the above article was first published, it contained a number of errors. The author wishes to draw the readers’ attention to the following corrections.
The sentence beginning on page 324, lines 18–22 should be replaced with the following:
Interviewee Chokufa Jongwe said that Zimbabweans turned to magical and mystical economy by using diviners (n’anga) who advise them to kill people with albinism and bring the body organs like the heart and the brains, hair and liver so that a herbal concoction could be made out of the body organs which would make a Zimbabwean business person very rich or an ill traditional Zimbabwean be cured of diseases like HIV/AIDS and cancer. Jongwe’s argument concurs with that of (Cimpric, 2000, p. 29) who debated that some Africans use the “occult economy” by utilizing supernatural approaches whose functioning concepts and rules were neither unambiguous, crystal clear nor understandable in any traditional way so as to get wealth instantly without much work or no effort at all.
On page 325, the indented text attributed to Akomolafe (2010) is a quote from an interviewee, Afryea Ametefe, during 2010.
On page 327, it is not apparent that parts of the text (lines 6–13; 17–38; and 46–48) are direct quotes from the following article written by the author:
Machoko, C (2013). Water spirits and the conservation of the natural environment: A case study from Zimbabwe. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, Volume 5, Issue 8, pp.285–296.
This article should also be included in the list of references.
On the following pages, it is not apparent that parts of the text are direct quotes from the following articles:
Page 320, lines 8–9 are a quote from Lund, P.M., “Distribution of oculocutaneous albinism in Zimbabwe”, Journal of Medical Genetics, 33, pp.641–644, 1996.
Page 320, lines 11–13 and page 326, lines 11–16 and lines 20–30 are quotes from Hong E.S. et al. “Albinism in Africa as a public health issue”, BMC Public Health, 6:212, pp.1–7, 2006.
Page 320, lines 22–23 and page 331, lines 15–18 are quotes from Puri, N. et al. “Type 2 oculocutaneous albinism (OCA2) in Zimbabwe and Cameroon: distribution of the 2.7-kb deletion allele of the P gene”, Human Genetics, 100: 651–656, 1997.
Page 322, lines 28–34 and page 328, lines 3–8 are quotes from Baker, C. et al. “The myths surrounding people with albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe”, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 22:3, pp.169–181, 2010.
Page 323, lines 9–13 are a quote from Aquaron, R. et al. “Sociocultural aspects of albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa: mutilations and ritual murders committed in east Africa (Burundi and Tanzania), Medecine Tropicale, 69, 2009.
Page 323, lines 35–39, page 324, lines 1–5, 10–16, and 24 are a quote from Cimpric, A. “Children Accused of Witchcraft. An anthropological study of contemporary practices in Africa.” Dakar: UNICEF WCARO, 2010.
Page 325, lines 30–33 are a quote from Akomolafe, F. “The sad plight of African Albinos”, New African, 492, pp.80–81, 2010.
The author apologises for these errors.