KOMFO - Akan Origin of 'Goofer Doctor' in Hoodoo

In this episode of AKANFO NANASOM - Ancient Authentic Akan Ancestral Religion, we examine the origins of the Goofer (Goopher) Doctor and 'goopher dust' in Hoodoo. As we have shown in our publication HOODOO PEOPLE and related publications, Hoodoo is the Akan tradition in North America. The role of the Okomfo or Komfo, a class of priest/ess, healer/healerss, conjure/conjuress in Akan culture, was/is maintained in name and function in Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) American Hoodoo in North America as the 'Goofer Doctor'.  

We examine the etymological and cosmological foundations of komfo (goopher, goofer) and the goofer dust used ritually.

See our related publications:

HOODOO PEOPLE: Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans) in North America - Akan Custodians of Hoodoo from Ancient Hoodoo/Udunu Land (Khanit/Nubia)

HOODOO MAYN Nhoma (Journal)

KANKYE and HINTI - Akan Origins of 'Conjure' and 'Haint' 

www.odwirafo.com/Hoodoo.html

Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan 

Aakhuamuman Amaruka Atifi Mu 

Akwamu Nation in North America 

Odwiraman

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