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A Review on Medicinal Plants Used in the Management of Headache in Africa

Plants, 2021
The use of medicinal plants in the management of diverse ailments is entrenched in the culture of indigenous people in African communities. This review provides a critical appraisal of the ethnobotanical uses of medicinal plants for the management of ...
Ebenezer Kwabena Frimpong, John Awungnjia Asong, Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu   +2 more
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Sustainability and Environmental Impact of Ethanol and Oxyhydrogen Addition on Nanocoated Gasoline Engine

Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications, 2022
Climate change, clean air, renewable energy, nontoxic surroundings, and the opportunity to live in a healthy community are just few of the issues that environmental sustainability addresses.
Sambandam Padmanabhan, K. Giridharan, Balasubramaniam Stalin, V. Elango, J. Vairamuthu, P. Sureshkumar, Leta Tesfaye Jule, Ramaswamy Krishnaraj   +7 more
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Indigenous knowledge

, 2023
What is Indigenous knowledge? While the term is rather problematic—as much knowledge, including European or Western knowledge, could be dubbed Indigenous—this article uses the concept for non-European that is Native American or African (and African diasporic) knowledge in the Atlantic world.
Bem Le Hunte, Tyson Yunkaporta, Jacqueline Melvold, Monique Potts, Katie E. Ross, Lucy Allen   +5 more
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Using Oral History to Redress Moral Degeneration Amongst the Youth in Higher Education Institutions of South Africa [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
Africa has a rich oral history of indigenous peoples that is enshrined in their indigenous stories, folklore, myths, and legends. Indigenous elders in Africa have remained the key aspect who transmit knowledge from generation to generation by word of ...
Sebea Busi Promsie, Kunene Welile Bongiwe, Maditsi Mothusiotsile Edwin   +2 more
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Picking fruit is not climate justice

npj Climate Action, 2023
To disrupt ongoing colonialist, racist narratives of Oceania as a source of cheap labour in which climate change is increasingly interwoven, it is necessary to firmly align Oceania workers’ rights with climate justice.
Taukiei Kitara, Carol Farbotko
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Kuwamai: Historic Epidemics and Resilience of Cariban-Speaking Peoples, Northern Amazonia

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021
How Amazonian Indigenous Peoples combatted emergent epidemic diseases in colonial times, and their innovative responses to epidemiological crises, has not received sufficient attention.
Renzo S. Duin
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A Quest for Decolonization: Incorporating Indigenous Pedagogies to Foster Teaching and Learning at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa [PDF]

Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs’) have been challenged by society that their teaching and learning (T&L) strategies fail to focus and dwell on the problems that are experienced by communities.
Mothusiotsile Edwin Maditsi , Modjadji Mandy Rasehlomi, Thato Hazel Seemise   +2 more
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Antioxidant and tyrosinase inhibitory activities of traditional fermented Rosa from Dali Bai communities, Northwest Yunnan, China

Scientific Reports, 2021
Traditional fermented Rosa (TFR) is a typical food and medical product among the Dali Bai people, and its popularity is growing. A few studies have looked into TFR's medicinal advantages, linked germplasm resources, traditional processing procedures, and
Bayi Lang, Yanqiang Zhao, Rong Yang, Aizhong Liu, Sailesh Ranjitkar, Lixin Yang   +5 more
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Natural resources used as folk cosmeceuticals among rural communities in Vhembe district municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2020
Background Skin-related diseases affect every individual irrespective of age, gender or social status. Since time immemorial, humans have explored natural resources from their environment for the maintenance of the skin.
Mamokete Venolia Setshego, Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, Obakeng Mooki, Wilfred Otang-Mbeng   +3 more
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Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working Group, began in the mid-20th century and reflects the “great acceleration” that began with industrialization in Europe [J.
Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Rebecca Hamilton, Wolfram Dressler, Lisa Palmer   +3 more
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