Word: ganga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tools of the Trade. Symon Thuita is an M'ganga, which is Swahili for witch doctor, and he is one of Kenya's best. His adept handling of the Nairobi nightmare case marked another step forward for the fledgling A.P.A. Its ultimate aim is to mold the new republic's 6,000 witch doctors, as well as 100 or more Indian ayurvedics, or herbalists, into a kind of copy of the American Medical Association which will carry black magic into the 20th century, just as Africa's politicians have done for tribalism...
...medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent $9,000,000 in the past year to erect 160 modern medical centers and 266 dispensaries. Even some whites turn to the resident M'ganga now and then...
...Spot. The A.P.A. is headed by a pair of grizzled Nairobi medicine men, M'ganga Ngari Kinyugo and Ayurvedic Vaid Bhagwandas Patel, and has attracted 2,000 members from Lake Victoria to Mombasa, charges dues of 280 a month, holds monthly meetings, forms committees and clashes with the government, just like medical associations elsewhere. It also feuds with rival organizations, notably one called African Repairs, whose aim is simply the repair of Africans but whose choice of name is unfortunate. Said one almost-member: "It sounds too much like a society of garage mechanics...