Papers by Sulaiman Bashir
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Oct 26, 2021
Journal of Heritage and Culture and Hospitality , 2024
The search for good health and well-being is as old as man's civilization and has been influenced... more The search for good health and well-being is as old as man's civilization and has been influenced by many factors such as environment, intergroup relations, flora, and fauna distribution among others. In Africa, there exist ways and practices of medicine in which the knowledge itself was handed over from generation to generation which has both qualities as curative and preventive therapeutic effects. But, by the 19th to 20th century, European incursions in Sub-Saharan Africa coupled with its treacherous excesses led to the decline and dearth of some of the traditional medicine practices and stagnated its development. This research aims to show the extent to which the Western type of medicinal practices and technology continue to dominate the healthcare delivery system and management in Sub-Saharan Africa, by analyzing the problems and challenges to which amongst is the over-reliance on foreign-trained health personnel, lack of proper funding from states, quackery in the profession, outdated research facilities, inferiority complex of African health attendants and unstable polities. These issues will be discussed, to show their role in demeaning the relevance of the African Sub-Saharan medicinal practices even though the newly introduced Western type of healthcare delivery system had no doubt transformed the health sector, , it continues to grapple with myriad set of challenges which are presently responsible for inefficiency and decay of the health care technology in that part of Africa. All these problems left African states in dilemma as to whether to embrace and opt for the weak Western type of health technology or revive the traditional and indigenous system of health care and technology. Also, suggestions would be proffered as to how to possibly wriggle out of the challenges.
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Papers by Sulaiman Bashir