African intangible cultural heritage such as traditional healing, witchcraft and other related matters have been dismissed, sometimes, as primitive. While some of these can be classified as indigenous knowledge, it can also be argued that other unscrupulous people have taken advantage of lapses in legislation in many African countries. We talk to several people including a traditional healer of note from South Africa to give an insight on traditional healing and African medicine.

Will African medicine ever be recognized in a world where conventional medicine seems to have taken recognition than the former?