Why modern doctors do not cooperate with traditional healers

What is it about?

The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests integrating traditional health care into national health systems. The reasons why this is not happening in Botswana are manifold, complex and not always rational. Traditional healers demand the right to practice their techniques and organize themselves with an emancipatory political claim, but they are not successful. Based on a perspective of political ecology of health combined with assemblage thinking, this article explores discourses and historical lines of development in order to show how Christian morality, the dualism between tradition and modernity and the introduction of a modern public health system are intertwined with witchcraft belief that clandestinely hampers development.

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