I've spent a lot of time in a bunch of African countries and with the diaspora of them over here in the UK. One thing that is virtually never remarked upon, but plays a very much outsized role in the minds and behaviours of Africans is the fact that they all believe in witchcraft or voodoo or shamanism or whatever the fuck you want to call it. Curses, spells, potions etc. That's not an exaggeration, they all believe it just to varying degrees. Even those that profess to be Christian or Muslim still genuinely believe it's a thing, arguably I would say in more 'real' ways than Christianity or Islam is.