African spiritual healer

    • Why is traditional African healing so popular?

      This may be partly due to the fact that traditional African healer is accredited as offering more affordable means of health care. Traditional African healing has been esteemed in treating the physical, mental and spiritual health of the population.



    • Did traditional African healers believe in allopathic medicine?

      There was indeed a pool of traditional healers who voiced faith in medical practices with respect to allopathic medicine. Some of the traditional healers even argued that Traditional African medicine was not equipped to treat depression. Allopathic medicine was at times endorsed as a superior alternative.


    • Are traditional healers left with a foot in South Africa?

      The research speculates that indeed these contradictions reflect some of the cultural times. The traditional healer and black South African may indeed be exposed to both westernized influence and traditional ones. Consequently, the traditional healer may be left with a foot in each world of medical practice.


    • [PDF File]The Education of Traditional Healers in Zimbabwe: A Pedagogy ...

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      This is based on Western knowledge system and culture. The paper argues that when you consider the African context, particularly the education of traditional healers, spirits or ancestors are integral to the pedagogical process. This provides a mystical dimension to the idea of teaching and learning.


    • [PDF File]Zulu Traditional Healing, Afrikan Worldview and the Practice ...

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      Zulu nomenclature for the classification of psycho-spiritual (mental) disorders is presented with a special attenuation towards mental health diagnosis and treatment within the Afrikan context on the continent of Afrika as well as throughout the Afrikan Diaspora.


    • “The Question Is Not How but Why Things Happen”: South ...

      In the South African context, a traditional healer is someone who possesses the gifts of receiv-ing spiritual guidance from the ancestral world (Truter, 2007). A diviner (Sangoma) is a tradi-tional healer who has been called to the profession by an ancestor-sent illness believed to be untreatable by modern or traditional medicine (Truter, 2007).


    • [PDF File]African Religious Healing Practices: A Case Study of the ...

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      Traditional African Healing or medicine is a sum total of all knowledge and practices, whether explicable or not used in diagnosis, prevention and elimination of physical, mental or societal imbalance, and relying exclusively on practical experience and observation handed down from generation to generation, whether verbally or in wri...


    • The concept of traditional healing and its role in African ...

      Abstract-Traditional healers are essential in traditional and modern African societies, not only because of their special powers to heal the sick and the dying but also because of their link to the spirits of the departed, which is believed to be a special cultural gift.


    • African traditional healers’ understanding of depression as a ...

      biomedical interventions; treatment by the African traditional healer; counselling; supernatural and spiritual influences; punishment; depression experienced as a collective vs. individualistic cultural experience; somatisation and specific emotional difficulties related to the vocation of traditional African medicine.


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