Wood is used for canoes, mortars, and pestles. The bark is pounded in Nigeria and used as a packing material on pack animals. Ashes of the wood are used in making soap and as a depilatory and tanning agent for hides. Pods and foliage are highly regarded as livestock fodder. Rhodesians use the pods to stupefy fish.
Humans eat the boiled seeds in times of scarcity in Rhodesia.
Apparently it is erroneously taken as an indicator of a shallow well site. Also used for colds, diarrhea, hemorrhage, and ophthalmia in West Africa. The bark of the Ana tree is a folk remedy for diarrhea among several tribes. On the Ivory Coast it is used for leprosy. The bark decoction curtails nausea.