I went through a tribal exorcism in Senegal that involved a great deal of ram's blood and that I'm not going to detail right now, but a few years afterwards I was in Rwanda, working on a different project, and I happened to describe my experience to someone, and he said, "Well, that's West Africa, and we're in East Africa, and our rituals are in some ways very different, but we do have some rituals that have something in common with what you're describing." And he said, "But we've had a lot of trouble with Western mental health workers, especially the ones who came right after the genocide." I said, "What kind of trouble did you have?" And he said, "Well, they would do this bizarre thing.
Me dijo: « Verá, eso es África Occidental y estamos en África Oriental. Nuestros rituales son, en ciertos aspectos, muy distintos, pero tenemos algunos rituales que se parecen bastante a lo que Ud. describe ». « ¿De veras? », le dije. « Sí, — contestó — pero hemos tenido muchos problemas con los trabajadores de la salud mental occidentales, sobre todo con los que vinieron apenas terminó el genocidio ». Pregunté: « ¿Qué clase de problemas tuvieron? ». Me contesta: « Bueno, hacían cosas extrañas.