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Transcript: Daniel Zwerdling Visits Traditional Healers In Zambia
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- April 9, 1994
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DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: If you happen to live in the Southern African
nation of Zambia, in a village near the town of Andolo [sp], down
a narrow dirt road crowded with banana trees and children and chickens,
and if you happen to get sick you might go to Fidelia Shenando [sp]
to be cured. Traditional healers have always played a crucial role
in African life, although European colonialists considered them barbaric
and tried to outlaw them. And, today, as African governments sink
deeper in debt and their modern hospitals run out of drugs, people
are using traditional healers more than ever.
When I stopped by Fidelia's clinic early one evening, there's a ...