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​Rainmakers, Initiation and Climate Change

4/26/2022

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​If Einstein was right, and a problem cannot be solved using the mindset that created it, perhaps we should be discussing our climate troubles with people who do not share the mindset of the industrial machine…

As we made our way to the house of the old rainmaker in Botswana, we grew excited at the thought of an untapped network of professionals who might know the medicine for climate change. We arrived, greeted and soon learned the rainmakers had long since given up making rain.

When we asked why, the old man laughed as if it was obvious. “Nobody actually makes rain. Rain simply comes when the land is right.” He stared out at the sandy paths between concrete block houses. “And it is not right.”

By Niall Campbell and Nicola Robbins


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    ​Niall Campbell is a sangoma,  a traditional doctor nyanga (medicine man) a doctor of traditional ceremonies as well as institutions as well as a Ngaka ua diKoma, a Doctor of the Law.
    He has over 25 years of apprenticeship with African teachers in ancestral and nature spirits, divination and medicinal herbalism. 
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    He facilitates rites of passage, initiations, coming into adulthood and manhood and is widely regarded as one of the foremost holders of traditional ways.

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