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Are They Really Herbalists… or Scientists?

A thought that arrived between laughter and family — Baylounge, Lagos Tonight, sitting with my wife and my mum, a conversation with my friend Sam took a turn I wasn't expecting. We were talking about charms. Voodoo. Spiritual practices. And then the real question surfaced: are these things truly supernatural  or are they simply sciences we have not yet had the discipline to study, structure, and own? Africa's Forgotten Laboratories Spirituality in Africa predates colonisation by centuries. Long before Western laboratories, long before peer-reviewed journals, knowledge was alive — passed from babalawo to initiate, from herbalist to community, from elder to apprentice. It was not written down, but it was not accidental. Then something shifted. That knowledge was labelled primitive. Demonic. Superstitious. It was dismissed rather than examined and that dismissal may be one of the most consequential intellectual errors in African history. What if our ancestors were not merely spiri...