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The exclusion of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC) from colonial legality, in July 1955, devotes the use of endogenous medical knowledge in the fight against colonialism in Cameroon. In the Sanaga-Maritime and West-Cameroon regions, where repression forced the members of this party to set up two paramilitary organizations in December 1956, the forest environment was indeed to take on a sacred and protective nature. Throughout the war of liberation, which opposed the movement of the Franco-Cameroonian Forces from 1956 to 1971, the leaves, the barks and the roots of plants were harvested and used to heal the (war)wounded and the sick outside the colonial (and post-colonial) public health system. Many “fetishers [sic]” were also recruited in the bush for shielding and immunization rites. As much to say that the Cameroon's war of liberation was, in a large part, a movement toward the use of knowledges and ancestral rites. This article aims to study the importance of traditional pharmacopoeia and the use of ritualistic therapies in the care of the wounded and the sick in the maquis during the War of Independence in Cameroon.
Keywords: Noumbou Tetam, pharmacopée traditionnelle, médecine rituelle, guerre d'indépendance, Ouest-Cameroun, Sanaga-Maritime, Noumbou Tetam, traditional pharmacopoeia, ritual medicine, War of Independence, West Cameroon, Sanaga-Maritime, Noumbou Tetam, farmacopea tradicional, medicina ritual, guerra de independencia, Camerún-Oeste, Sanaga-Maritime
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