This study aims to engage the broader discussions around medicine and its role in societies. More specifically, the usefulness of medicinal knowledge within contexts that have long utilised local knowledge systems that still co-exist with the institutionalised biomedical knowledge system we as a country currently practice. The more intimate reasons of this project are to incite the nation as well as parts of the continent that have experience drastic changes to its social fabric to reimagine their identities and aptitudes that have contributed to the long and continued practice that asylum shortcomings of the already stretched and less reaching health care system. Furthermore, raise questions around how knowledge is regarded ‘legitimate’ based on its origins and its determinants. The study aims not to give answers or conclusions. However, the researcher hopes to incite better conversations among citizens about the kind of society we ought to work towards.
Researcher
Israel Notwane-Skosana regards themselves as an observer, empathiser, and activist protestor, deeply invested in interrogating social identities and notions of being. Israel completed their BA degree in Organisational Psychology, Political Studies and Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as a BSocSci(Hons) in Development Studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Their interest lies within the African cosmos, what it means to be African, particularly within a world that defines and re-defines Africa from the lens of the outsider.