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Colonial powers tried to stifle traditional healing in Zimbabwe. They failed and today it’s a powerful force for treating mental illness

In Zimbabwe’s Shona language, mental illness is known as chirwere chepfungwa or kupenga. Before British colonial settlers arrived in 1890, traditional healers (n’anga) played an important role in ...
Washington Examiner

Zimbabwe tribal healers’ leader Chavunduka dies

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s organization of tribal healers says its leader, the eminent academic, author, sociologist and politician Professor Gordon Chavunduka, has died at age 82. The ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB’s Morse presides over first graduation of Zimbabwe Traditional Healers

Release Date: March 20, 2014 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. – Gene D. Morse, professor and associate director of the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in ...
Reuters

Five die in blast at Zimbabwe healer's house

CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Five people were killed and three injured in an explosion at a traditional healer's home in the Zimbabwean town of Chitungwiza on Monday, police said. Hundreds of ...
Zimbabwe

In South Africa, Traditional Healers Join Fight Against HIV

BUSHBUCKRIDGE, SOUTH AFRICA (AP) - The walls of Shadrack Mashabane's hut in the rural South African town of Bushbuckridge are covered with traditional fabrics, with a small window the only source of ...