COVID-19, Gender and Health: Recentring Women in African Indigenous Health Discourses in Zimbabwe for Environmental Conservation
Publisher: Theological Studies
Author(s): Molly Manyonganise
Date: 2023
Topics: Gender, Renewable Resources
Countries: Zimbabwe
In precolonial Africa, women were the major authorities in herbal remedies within their own homes and at the community level, where they focused on disease prevention and cure. Such roles were pushed to the periphery of Africa’s health discourse by the introduction of Western modes of healing.