Popular Ghanaian magician, Professor Hindu, famously known as Kwaku Addae, has opened up about the astonishing methods behind his remarkable magic displays.
Known for his close spiritual association with the late Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, Hindu’s magic acts left audiences both mesmerized and mystified for decades.
One of his most talked-about performances involved the dramatic act of killing and bringing people back to life.
“I am the sole individual bestowed with the power to sever someone’s head and restore it within three days. It’s a divine gift,” Professor Hindu declared.
Recounting an incident where he inadvertently caused death during a magic show, he explained, “I failed to revive the individual because it was their destined time to depart. However, I have also successfully brought someone back to life within an hour. I possess a unique ability unmatched by any other.”
A few years ago, an English journalist, Suzanne Moore dedicated a column in the New Statesman to recounting a remarkable event hosted by Fela Kuti in London.
The venue was a small club in Belsize Park, where Fela’s favored sorcerer, Professor Hindu, was performing extraordinary feats. Inside, Hindu was slicing his own tongue, while outside, men were digging a grave.
Suzanne Moore did not return for the resurrection two days later but learned about it from the wonderful Vivien Goldman, who wrote her own account in NME.
Not only had she been there, but she’d gone back to see the dead man raised. He’d jumped out of the grave in a suit all covered in earth and propositioned her. “Being buried alive makes you horny,” he exclaimed. That makes sense, when you think about it.
Goldman, not only attended the event but returned to witness the resurrection. She described the dead man jumping out of the grave in a suit covered in earth and propositioning her, saying, “Being buried alive makes you horny.” It made sense when you thought about it.
Fela’s death and resurrection show debuted at his Lagos club, the Shrine, in May 1981. According to Michael E. Veal’s book “Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon,” during Professor Hindu’s first appearance at the Shrine, the magician reportedly slashed one man’s throat and fatally shot another.
On Wednesday 6th of May 1981 (at) 10 P.M., Professor [Kwaku] Addaie [a/k/a Professor Hindu] shot and killed a man at the Shrine. The body is buried right in the Shrine, you can go there and see; the body is still in the tomb. At 7 P.M. today Friday the 8th of May, 1981, the body will be resurrected by Professor Addaie himself. We hereby invite all press, doctors, Police, C.I.D. [Central Intelligence Division], N.S.O. [National Security Organization], Presidential Guards, etc. to come and see true Afrikan powers with their own two eyes. With this, there is no Jesus—THERE IS AFRIKA.
In both cases, the victims were revived after seemingly spending days and nights buried underground. Veal includes the text of an ad Fela placed in the Nigerian newspaper Punch, showcasing Hindu’s abilities:
These events occurred during a tumultuous period in Fela’s life. Only a few years earlier, General Obasanjo’s troops had attacked his commune, the Kalakuta Republic, brutalizing its inhabitants, raping, and stomping on them. They even threw Fela’s 78-year-old mother from a second-story window and burned down the house. Fela’s defiant response to these attacks is captured in his album “Coffin for Head of State.” Later in 1981, soldiers again attacked Fela, beating him with gun-butts and leaving him for dead in the gutter.
After this latter assault, Fela credited his survival to Professor Hindu, though there were skeptics. His son, Femi Kuti, quoted in Veal’s book, expressed doubt about the sorcerer’s claimed powers.
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Ghana's all-time greatest magician, Kwaku Addae, popularly known as Professor Hindu, reveals how he was able to carry out extraordinary magic displays, especially killing and resurrecting people.
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