November 22, 2002

Just What the Shaman Ordered

By Daniel del Castillo

Twelve degrees North of the Equator near the sweltering foothills of the Manding Mountains, professors and university students here in Mali's dusty capital are brewing up a new kind of medicine, one that blends modern Western treatments with traditional tribal remedies.

Their research takes place along a sandy side street of downtown Bamako, which lies in a depression along the Niger River, in a nondescript, one-story building. This is Mali's Department of Traditional Medicine. On an

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