People became open to learning more about African spirituality and the world of traditional healing and what it means to be a healer, someone who has been chosen by the ancestors to bring spiritual guidance and healing to Africans. It has now become something that people can now freely talk about on social media and even reality TV shows are being created. Traditional healers and African spirituality have now started being used as a money-making tool in the entertainment industry because so many reality shows are being created based on this.
Currently, there is a show on Moja Love, the much loved reality show known as Gogo Skhotheni. Gogo Skhotheni is also a traditional healer, who shares her journey on television and also how it integrates with her personal life. When the show first started, people enjoyed it and they thought that it would add a positive spin, especially to what people have been seeing lately of these reality shows of traditional healers, and many of them viewed it as negative and causing more harm to African spirituality than good.
But as the show has been airing for the past few days, people have noticed that Gogo Skhotheni’s show is no different from the rest, and hers might seem worse because she left viewers in shock when she claimed that her ancestors wanted her to be in a polyandry marriage. Which means that they wanted her to get married to a second man, which is what she did. People still claim that it is not true that her ancestors wanted that. All she just wanted to do was cheat on her first husband. After last night’s episode, people were not left impressed at all and they shared their frustrations about the show and wanted it to come to an end.
Many viewers are saying that the show is scripted and it is ruining her reputation as a healer, and it is also undermining African spirituality when they thought it would bring more light to it. And they also thought that she was a rare breed who was humble, but the show proved otherwise.