OpEd: COVID-19: Time To Go Madagascar By Festus Adedayo | Sahara Reporters If the NigeriaGov encourages traditional medicine practitioners and departments of botany of different universities to find cure to COVID-19, I am sure remedies could...READ MORE:
Like many other societies in the world, Africa boasts of a past that is ambivalent, a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. She had villains, despots, tyrants, developmental leaders and all sorts as rulers. As she had a ruthless hero in leader of the Zulu Kingdom, Shaka kaSenzangakhona, better known as Shaka the Zulu, who reigned from 1816 to 1828, so also did Africa have 16thcentury notorious Basorun Gaa of the old Oyo Empire Army .
There is no doubt that African medicine was potent and was efficient for centuries in treating sicknesses like cancer, diabetes, malaria, stroke, epilepsy, benign prostatic herperplasia, gout and all manner of ailments. Traditional African medicine involves indigenous herbalism that is many times mixed with African spirituality. Its own doctors were known as diviners, herbalists and midwives. They are reputed to have cured complex ailments, even psychiatric disorders.
In the process of seeking cure for the coronavirus, Madagascar was reported to have made use of its biodiversity by embarking on a therapy protocol that uses an admixture of chloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, as well as deployment of medicinal plants. IMRA and the National Pharmacology Research Centre of Madagascar were said to have depended heavily on the usage of artemisia plants hitherto renowned for the cure of malaria.
If not, a government that has a mind of its own shouldn’t be deterred by the threats of the west, especially in the quest to rescue its own people from the pangs of a global pandemic. It is apparent that finding cure to a global ailment by any common African country is an effrontery, indeed insolence by Africa against her masters.
So many questions arise from Kalu’s sudden “realizations” and new-found activism.
The heist of the late General Sani Abacha, stashed away in different countries of the world, that are coming in droves back to the country, is my subject. This was a heist which the self-same Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, had persistently denied as non-existent, literally beatifying his late benefactor, Sani Abacha, as above board. Excluding tranches of the loot recently returned to Nigeria, the country has, in the past 18 years, recovered $4.6 billion of her treasury looted by Abacha.
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