Abstract
This paper looks to the past to refute a mechanistic vision that perpetuates the colonial perceptions of medicine in African societies. African medical practices existed before, during and after colonization, and it is reductive to consider them under the mantle of tradition, which obfuscates the possibility of analysis and comparison. In place of the inadequate concept of traditional medicine, “empiric-metaphysical medicine” more aptly qualifies the medical practices of African societies. What does this new concept bring to the knowledge of medical practices within the continent? How did “empiric-metaphysical” medicine resist powerful modern medicine? What continuities and ruptures characterize the history of medicine in Africa?
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