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... Counterintuitively, rural medicines proliferate in Togo’s capital city, Lomé. They are sold on street corners, in market stalls, and by itinerant vendors in neighborhoods. Market women and civil servants alike, and 100 percent of those interviewed, used herbal medicines routinely while also...

... with local medicines. Such collaborative potential is also endorsed by the World Bank and the World Health Organization. medical pluralism tradition and modernity traditional healing and biomedicine Counterintuitively, rural medicines proliferate in Togo’s capital city, Lomé. They are sold...

... along the way. The U.S. embassy in Lomé knows this gaming is going on and constructs ever more elaborate tests to attempt to decipher the authenticity of winners’ marriages and job profiles—and of their moral worth as citizens—tests that immediately circulate to those on the street. This chapter...