Soc Sci Med. 1983 ; 17(24): 2033-6.

Religiosity and health behaviour in Africa.

Sempebwa JW.

African medicine has in the past been misunderstood and misrepresented in Western scholarship--to the extent that medicine-men have been called 'witch-doctors'. In this article the author makes an attempt to show what is behind African medicine and to give it a positive interpretation.