ABSTRACT
The traditional African worldview permeates indigenous African cultures throughout the continent; and reflects the ancient Kemetic medical practices. The European generally saw this Kemetic legacy and the blending and reflecting of other African cultures as more evidence of "a belief in witchcraft as these savages of the African bush that file their teeth and perforate the cartilage of their noses”. The people of ancient Kemet left a substantial and influential body of medical knowledge. Slaveowners, medical doctors and observers of Africans in the slaveocracy, often preoccupied with racial assumptions and supremacist privilege, failed to understand the African worldview. Philosophical thought focused on the differences between Africans and Europeans, consigning to the African gross negative connotations of being. Physician and historian, Charles S. Finch notes that: A study of other African systems of medicine is more problematical, however, because of the absence of surviving written records.
