Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, July 2000

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Ethnoveterinary healing practices of Fulani pastoralists in Cameroon: combining the natural and the supernatural - photos

by Mopoi Nuwanyakpa, Ngeh J. Toyang, Sali Django, Christopher Ndi, and Clare Wirmum

PHOTOS

Map of the Republic of Cameroon

1 Ethnoveterinarian Ardo Umaru in the village of Bainjong, Fundong holding Koran literature (left hand) and dipping a pen in Arabic ink (right hand).
Photo: Dr Mopoi Nuwanyakpa, 1995

2 The ethnovet writing a phrase from the Koran on a Koranic board.
Photo: Dr Mopoi Nuwanyakpa, 1995

3 Assisted by Alhaji Buba, ethnovet Ardo Amaru washes the written phrase into a calabash bowl.
Photo: Dr Mopoi Nuwanyakpa, 1995

4 A calf being treated with an ethnoveterinarian drug, and the phrase from the Koran washing.
Photo: Dr Mopoi Nuwanyakpa, 1995

Table. Combined natural and supernatural healing practices used by Fulani pastoralists

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