This study will focus on the perceptions of Africans living in the Washington Metropolitan area. This researcher will use survey to investigate subjects attitudes toward health care, traditional medicine and modern medicine. By determining the subjects attitudes, more people might be able to understand why many Africans living in the West practice traditional medicine in addition to modern medicine. Many Africans, both educated and non-educated, practice traditional medical treatment more than they do modern medical treatment. This is known by the researcher to be factual due to personal experience.
Traditional healers use a variety of methods to heal their patients.
These include 1. Charms and incantations, and 3. Rather, it is viewed as being serious in nature and probably due to some supernatural causes. In Africa, disease state is not all believed to be due to an ultimate spiritual cause. Some are understood to be natural causes.