Africa's numerous cultures have long enjoyed a heritage of diets based on items known to be good for gut and metabolic health, including a range of vegetables, grains, fruit, and fermented goods.

The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African and Caribbean cultures lie centuries-old practices that offer profound ...

From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral ...

A switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with lifestyle diseases.

When Idoko, a 23-year-old man living in rural Benue State, north central Nigeria, began hearing voices, withdrawing from family and speaking incoherently, his family's first call was not to a ...

KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - A sample of African culture could be experienced today in Killeen as the Taste of Africa event held their fifth annual celebration while also raising funds to benefit youth in ...

Pharmacist and Academic Lecturer (Pharmacy Practice Division, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of the Witwatersrand), University of the Witwatersrand Traditional medicines are part ...

Traditional healers are integral to the lives of many of us in Mzansi. They are custodians of cultural heritage, spiritual insight, and holistic wellness. Their sacred discipline is a living tradition ...