Prologue AIDS, Rats, and Soldiers’ Belts

Frozen by her doubts, Binti Mayaula did nothing as she watched a man die of AIDS. She had had a dream in which she had been told to collect the rootdying’weoand make it into a tea to cure just such a patient. When she awoke, however, Binti Mayaula was uncertain. She knew this root, having used it in...

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Published inBodies, Politics, and African Healing p. 1
Main Author Langwick, Stacey A
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Indiana University Press 23.06.2011
Subjects
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Biological nomenclature
Biological sciences
Biological taxonomies
Biology
Botany
Clergy
Cousins
Dendrology
Diseases
Families
Family members
Healers
Healing
Health sciences
Human societies
Literary elements
Literature
Medical conditions
Narrative plot
Physiological processes
Physiology
Plant names
Practical theology
Prologues
Religion
Social institutions
Sociology
Spiritual leaders
Theology
Trees
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Summary:Frozen by her doubts, Binti Mayaula did nothing as she watched a man die of AIDS. She had had a dream in which she had been told to collect the rootdying’weoand make it into a tea to cure just such a patient. When she awoke, however, Binti Mayaula was uncertain. She knew this root, having used it in the past to make a medicinal paste to apply externally to sores. The sores had dried up and that patient had healed. But now she was called upon to administer the medicine orally. Anxious that the concoction would be toxic,
ISBN:9780253355270
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