Traditional Medicine in Africa

The inaccessibility of biomedicine to most of Africa's population because of escalating costs has necessitated a search for alternative ways of managing illnesses. Traditional medicine which has always been practised in the indigenous cultures is fast filling this therapeutic gap. This book is a collection of essays based on a multidisciplinary approach to traditional medicine in Africa. It has contributions from social scientists natural resource experts traditional medical practitioners educationists and medical scholars. It attempts to define the problems of traditional medicine in Africa while also discussing the conceptual foundations of African ethnomedicine and medical pluralism.