No one would admit that they’d stolen my phone, so Manager threatened to call a juju priest to settle the issue spiritually.

“The thief will die within three days!” Manager said. “Their whole family will run mad!” The three suspects, all employees at the bar where I had come to charge the phone, laughed at his threats: Who uses juju to settle disputes in 2017?

Livid, Manager added another threat to the list: “The thief will fart and fart until all the air is gone from their body. They’ll dry up like stockfish. Just wait and see.”