sangoma

IPA: sɑŋgˈoʊmʌ

(South Africa and other parts of Southern Africa) A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.

Examples of "sangoma" in Sentences

Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa.
*The school starts with the circumcision that is done by a traditional healer or a sangoma.
Mashabela, a senior "sangoma" has also displayed a poster that reads "My friend with AIDS is still my friend.
She had gone to a sangoma traditional healer when she started feeling sick and he had told her that she was too sick for his help.
The parents told AFP that the spells of the "sangoma" witchdoctors to bring the children back will fail if the bodies are interred.
"We are happy that the country is recognizing us," says Gaobepe, who describes herself as a "sangoma", a healer whose distinctiveness lies in her spiritual link with the ancestors.
A sangoma is a learned practitioner of traditional African mysticism and soothsaying, healer and spiritualist, a medium between the physical world and the otherworldly dimension of ancestors.
Thomas Heathfield was a well-paid banking consultant with a promising career in Maidenhead, England, but gave it up this year to move to South Africa and endure rigorous training as a "sangoma" - or witch doctor.
But in Africa, where mysticism and magic play a part in many people's lives, pronouncements from a '' sangoma '' such as Nsukwini can carry as much weight as those from governments, especially when it comes to the murky world of security agencies.