This unique relationship found in many African cultures is what Europeans exploited entering South Africa and Tanganyika according …show more content…
The many physical and chronic wounds black bodies faced in Uganda gained new metaphysical meaning as an opportunity to convert Ugandans to Christianity. Their disease was their gateway to the western world and vice versa for the missionaries. But, this new meaning, these new wounds were brought about by the inherently racist clinical approach missionary medicine brought to the topic of treating Black bodies. This mutualism depicted by missionaries between all that is evil, unclean, and diseased and the black body, gave the Ugandan 's wounds new meaning, it diminished if not destroyed the practice of alternative medicines in the area and gave missionaries and slavers alike a sort of jihad-like mission to colonize the African interior. Medicine for the European wasn 't only about curing the body but the Africans ' inherently savage and natal