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Traditional Healing and Medicine in Winti: A Sociological Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Charles J. Wooding
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During the period of the slave trade (1650-1830), people were brought from the whole West Coast of Africa to Suriname. The majority had a Fante-Akan (Ghana), Ewe-Fon (Togo and Benin), or a western Bantu (Congo, Zaire and Angola) background, while the Mandingo (Senegal, Sierra Leone and Liberia) formed a minor fraction (Wooding 1972: ch. II). In the course of time they amalgamated into the Afrosurinamese population group, which is subdivided into two main groups: the coastal Creoles and the inland Bushnegroes.

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African Issues , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Fall 1979 , pp. 35 - 40
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979 

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