IMHOTEP JOURNAL
African Healing Traditions
Volume 7, May 2010
By The Students
Picture taken at Ekhaya KweNdaba (House of Wisdom, at Credo Mutwa Village in South Africa)
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Editor in Chief
Tyra M. Singleton
Production\ Design
Kenric Bailey
Contributors
AFRS 111 Black Cultures and Personalities:
2008/9 Academic Year
Faculty Advisor
Serie McDougal, III, PhD
Dedicated to Wade Nobles, PhD, Theophile Obenga, PhD,
and Oba T’Shaka, PhD
We thank each of them for the contributions that they have made and no doubt
will continue to make to the discipline of Africana Studies and toward the
liberation of people of African descent in this life and the next.
We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to
Madame Chair Dr. Dorothy Tsuruta for her leadership and guidance,
as well as the IRA for their support of this publication.
Copyright © 2010 San Francisco State University
All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or
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State University, College of Ethnic Studies, Department of Africana Studies.
Traditional Healing of the Dogon People …..………........41
By Indeah Farquhar-Watson
Traditional Healing of the Akan People ..……………......47
By Joshua Jalil
Traditional Healing Among the Masaai ..……………......53
By Tyra M. Singleton
Winti Traditional Healing ..…………………………….....60
By Kelsey Saunders
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Imhotep Journal, Volume 7, May 2010