mganga

This practitioner of Western medicine is different from the traditional healer, termed a mganga in Swahili.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

This practitioner of Western medicine is different from the traditional healer, termed a mganga in Swahili.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Among them, mganga also relied on hirizi for the divination aspect of their work.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Note 124: The claim that possession is at work is commonly understood when an mganga determines that a spirit is to blame for affliction.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Note 31: Tanzanian colonial officials inadvertently captured the essence of mulungu as both spirits and afflictions that called for mganga treatments in Vidunda communities.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

We got the donkey across with the aid of a mganga, or medicine man, who spat some chewed leaves of a tree which grows close to the stream over him.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

In the evening, as the portentous elements still frowned upon us, the wise crew surmised that the _uganga_ (church) was angry at my endeavouring to carry across the waters the goat which the sultan had given me, and which, they said, ought never to have left the spot it was presented in alive; and declared their intention of applying to the _mganga_ (priest) to ascertain his opinion before venturing out again.

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

After this (10th to 12th), to my great relief, quite unexpectedly, a man arrived from Usui conveying a present of some ivories from a great mganga or magician, named Dr K'yengo, who had sent them to Musa as

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

"Mtambua ndwee ndiye mganga" meaning he who diagnoses a disease is the physician.

Muti 2010

"Mtambua ndwee ndiye mganga" meaning he who diagnoses a disease is the physician.

Muti 2010