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Doubt Ndiweni HON. NDIWENI: Thank you Madam Speaker Maam.  This is a topic that is deep. This is a topic I have interest in.  Traditional Medicines are so downplayed in this country when they are so important for us.  If you look at statistics in Zimbabwe, traditional medicines are used by almost two thirds of the population.  Some of us use traditional medicines behind closed doors.  Some people use traditional medicines openly but statistics say two thirds of the population use traditional medicines.  So what it means is that two thirds of Parliamentarians also use traditional medici...

Read Article I first spoke with Naomi Adamu after she was freed from three years in captivity. She had been among the nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists from their dormitory in the town of Chibok in April 2014. International attention to that point had focused on the wildly popular, celebrity-driven social media campaign #BringBackOurGirls, rescue efforts and the horrors the girls’ captors subjected them to – forced labor, marriages and conversions to Islam. The girls themselves, in most accounts, were generally reduced to helpless, subdued prototypes of v...

The benefits of baobab: What to know about the superfood TODAY 2/17/2021 Have you ever seen a monkey-bread tree? It’s the tree of life — the tree from which our ancestors were able to get sustenance all year round because its fruit is the only one in the world that dries naturally on the branch and can be eaten in its entirety. Native to Madagascar, mainland Africa and Australia, the tree has also been introduced to other regions like Asia. © Tuul & Bruno Morandi Madagascar, Morondava, Baobab trees (Tuul & Bruno Morandi / Getty Images) After the funky-looking, papaya-shaped, coconut-...

The soft opening continues this week with dinner events on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Seatings are 4-6 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Tickets are $60 each for the four-course meal which includes dessert and its new Ji Passion Fruit juice. You can buy dinner tickets, the hot sauce and juice through the Baobab Fare website. The juice is $6 and a jar of hot sauce is $5. The Ji Passion Fruit drink offers a tangy taste and is rich in antioxidants. Made in small batches, Pili Hot sauce gets its spicy kick from fire-roasted habanero peppers.  The hot sauce is used on everything from eggs to rice and beans. I...

Photo: courtesy Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, widow of civil rights advocate and Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, will headline the month-long celebration Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is kicking off its celebration of Black History Month with an in-depth look at the manifestations of family in the Black community through a variety of virtual, research-oriented programming. Black History Month is celebrated al...