Health and Practice in Traditional Africa: Rethinking the Efficacy of IKS among the Zimbabwean Vatsonga
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Indigenous knowledge systems are a body of knowledge, or bodies of knowledge of the indigenous people of particular geographical areas that they have survived on for a very long time. It is a theory founded by African scholars with the perspective that Africans are people who were created with knowledge that does not come from today`s education. It plays a pivotal role in Africa as well as the whole world. Indigenous knowledge systems manifest themselves through different dimensions. Among these are agriculture, security, education, health, zoology, craft skills and linguistics. This essay will examine the significance of Indigenous knowledge system in relation to health among the Zimbabwean Vatsonga.
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