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Culturally Competent Care for Africans

Selected and compiled by Jacquelyn Coughlan, M.S., M.L.S.


Abdalla, I. H. (1997). Islam, medicine and practioners in northern Nigeria: Vol. 6. Studies in African health and medicine. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

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Adelman, H., & Sorenson, J. (1994). African refugees. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Adetunji, J. A. (1991). Response of parents to five killer diseases among children in a Yoruba community, Nigeria. Social Science & Medicine, 32(12), 1379-1387.

Afrika, L. O. (1998). African holistic health. Brooklyn, NY: A & B.

American Public Health Association. (n.d.). Africa, health culture sketch. Retrieved February 5, 2005, from http://www.apha.org/ppp/RED/afrbeliefs.htm

Amoo-Dodoo, F. N. A. (1997). Assimilation differences among Africans in America. Social Forces, 76(2), 527-546.

Ansell, N. (2001). "Because it's our culture!" (Re)negotiating the meaning of lobola in Southern African secondary schools. Journal of Southern Africa Studies, 27, 697-716.

Bartels, E. (2003). Medical ethics and rites involving blood. Anthropology & Medicine, 10, 105-114.

Beckerleg, S. (2000, October). Counselling Kenyan heroin users: Cross-cultural motivation? Health Education, 101(2), 69-73.

Bennstam, A. L., Strandmark, M., & Diwan, V. K. (2004, March). Perception of tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Wali ya nkumu in the Mai Ndombe district. Qualitative Health Research, 14(3), 299-312.

Bezwoda, W. R., Colvin, H., et al. (1997, February 20). Transcultural and language problems in communicating with cancer patients in southern Africa. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 809, 119-132.

Boyles, S., & Key, K. K. (1996, November 25-December 2). Witchcraft/evil spirits may hamper TB control. Disease Weekly Plus, 21-22.

Briggs, L. A. (1999, November). Socio-cultural implications of female genital mutilation in Nigeria. West African Journal of Nursing, 10(2), 124-126.

Buckland, P. (1997). Hospice in southern Africa. In D. C. Saunders & R. Kastenbaum (Eds.), Hospice care on the international scene. New York: Springer.

Caldwell, J. C., Orubuloye, I. O., & Caldwell, P. (1997, April). Male and female circumcision in Africa from regional to a specific Nigerian examination. Social Science & Medicine, 44(8), 1181-1193.

Chalmers, B. (1996). Cross-cultural comparisons of birthing: Psycho-social issues in western and African birth. Psychology and Health, 12(1), 11-21.

Chapman, R. R. (2003, July). Endangering safe motherhood in Mozambique: Prenatal care as pregnancy risk. Social Science & Medicine, 57(2), 355-374.

Cheetham, R. W., & Griffiths, J. A. (1982, December). Sickness and medicine--an African paradigm. South African Medical Journal, 62(25), 954-6.

Chipfakacha, V. G. (1994). The role of culture in primary health care. Two case studies. South African Medical Journal, 84(12), 860-862.

Chipfakacha, V. G. (1997). STD/HIV/AIDS knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional healers in Botswana. AIDS Care, 9(4), 417- 425.

Coker, E. M. (2004, March). "Traveling pains": Embodied metaphors of suffering among Southern Sudanese refugees in Cairo. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 28(1), 15-39.

Creel, M. (1991). Gullah attitudes toward life and death. In J. Holloway (Ed.), Africanisms in American culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Cross-cultural healing in east African ethnography.(1999). Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 13(4), 458-482.

Csordas, T. J. (1987). Health and the holy in African and Afro-American spirit possession. Social Science & Medicine, 24(1), 1-11.

Cunningham, T. (1998, December). The culture of kat. Nursing Standard, 13, 25.

Desrosiers, A., & St. Fleurose, S. (2002). Treating Haitian patients: Key cultural aspects. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 56(4), 508-21.

Duffy, L. (2005). Culture and context of HIV prevention in rural Zimbabwe: The influence of gender inequality. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 16(1), 23-31.

Du Toit, B., & Abdallah, I. (Eds.). (1985). African healing systems. New York: Trado-Medic Books.

Du Toit, B. M. (1998, December). Modern folk medicine in South Africa. South African Journal of Ethnology, 21(4), 145-.

Edginton, M. E., Sekatane, C. S., & Goldstein, S. J. (2002). Patients' beliefs: Do they affect tuberculosis control? A study in rural districts of South Africa. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 6(12), 1075-82.

Erinosho, O. A. (1980). Laing's 'conspiratorial' theory of mental illness and folk societies. Psychopathologie Africaine, 16(2), 195-203.

Edubio, A., & Sabanadesan, R. (2001). African communities in Northern Europe and HIV/AIDS. Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://212.206.44.60/systeem3/pdf/report_african_communities.pdf

Ezeh, A. C. (1993). The influence of spouses over each other's contraceptive attitudes in Ghana. Studies in Family Planning, 24, 163-174.

Fosu, G. B. (1981). Disease classification in rural Ghana: Framework and implications for health behaviour. Social Science & Medicine, 15(4), 471-482.

Furnham, A., Akande, D., et al. (1999). Beliefs about health and illness in three countries: Britain, South Africa and Uganda. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 4(2), 189-201.

Green, E. C. (1999). Indigenous theories of contagious disease. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Green, E. C. (1999). Pollution and other contagion beliefs among Bantu speakers. Indigenous theories of contagious disease (pp. 55-88). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Green, E. C., Jurg, A., & Djedje, A. (1994). The snake in the stomach: Child diarrhea in central Mozambique. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 8(1), 4-24.

Gunnlaugsson, G. Einarsdottir, J. (1993). Colostrum and ideas about bad milk: A case study from Guinea-Bissau. Social Science & Medicine, 36(3), 283-88.

Hales, A. (1996). West African beliefs about mental illness. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 32, 23-29.


Hargreaves, M. K., Schlundt, D. G., & Buchowski, M. S. (2002). Contextual factors influencing the eating behaviors of African American women: A focus group investigation. Ethnicity and Health, 7(3), 133-147.

Hautman, M. A. (1979). Folk health and illness beliefs. Nurse Practitioner, 4(4), 23, 26-27, 31.

Hewson, M.G. (1998). Traditional healers in South Africa. Annals of Internal Medicine, 128, 1029-1034.

Higginbottom, G. M. A. (2000, January). Breast-feeding experiences of women of African heritage in the United Kingdom. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 11(1), 55-63.

Holt, L. L. (2001, April). End of life customs among immigrants from Eritrea. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 12(2), 146-154.

Holtzman, J. D. (2000). Nuer journeys, Nuer lives: Sudanese refugees in Minnesota. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Horowitz, C. R., & Jackson, J. C. (1997). Female 'circumcision': African women confront American medicine. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 12, 491-499.

Janzen, J. M., & Feierman, S. (1979). The social history of disease and medicine in Africa. I. Introduction. Social Science and Medicine, 13B(4), 239-43.

Jarosz, L. A. (1990). Intercultural communication in assessing dietary habits: Liberia as an example. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 90(8), 1094-1099.

Jilek-Aall, L. (1999). Morbus sacer in Africa: Some religious aspects of epilepsy in traditional cultures. Epilepsia, 40(3), 382-386.

Kauchali, S., Rollins, N., & Van den Broeck, J. (2004). Local beliefs about childhood diarrhoea: Importance for healthcare and research. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 50(2), 82-89.

Kemp, C., & Rasbridge, L. (2005). Refugee & Immigrant Health. Deals with issues in refugee health and resettlement. Retrieved October 20, 2004, from http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugees.htm

King, R., & Homsi, J. (1997). Involving traditional healers in AIDS education and counselling in sub-Saharan Africa: A review. AIDS, 11(Suppl. A), S217- 225.

Kuczkowski, K. M. (2005). Herbal ecstasy: cardiovascular complications of khat chewing in pregnancy. Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica, 56(1), 19-21.

Kusimba, J., Voeten, H. A., O'Hara, H. B., et al. (2003, March). Traditional healers and the management of sexually transmitted diseases in Nairobi, Kenya. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 14(3), 197-201.

Laverentz, M. L., Cox, C. C., et al. (1999, November-December). The Nuer Nutrition Education Program: Breaking down cultural barriers. Health Care for Women International, 20(6), 593-601.

Liefooghe, R., Baliddawa, J., Kipruto, E. M., Vermeire, C., & De Munynck, A. O. (1997, August). From their own perspective. A Kenyan community's perception of tuberculosis. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2(8), 809-821.

Lusting, S. L., Weine, S. M., Saxe, G. N., et al. (2004, March). Testimonial psychotherapy for adolescent refugees: A case series. Transcultural Psychiatry, 41(1), 31-45.

Mabogunje, O. A. (1990, May). Ritual hot baths (wankan-jego) in Zaria, Nigeria. Newsletter (Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children), 9, 10.

Makinde, M. A. (1988). African philosophy, culture and traditional medicine. Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies.

Maluleka, T. X., & Troskie, R. (2003, September). The views of women in the Limpopo province of South Africa concerning girl's puberty rites. Health SA Gesondheid, 8(3), 47-60.

Manderson, L., & Allotey, P. (2003). Storytelling, marginality, and community in Australia: How immigrants position their difference in health care settings. Medical Anthropology, 22(1),1-21.

Marck, J. (1997). Aspects of male circumcision in sub-equatorial African culture history. Health Transition Review, 7, 337-360.

McElvaine, D. (1997). Zimbabwe: The island hospice experience. In D. C. Saunders & R. Kastenbaum (Eds.), Hospice care on the international scene. New York: Springer.

McFarland, D. M. (2003 September). Cervical cancer and Pap smear screening in Botswana: Knowledge and perceptions. International Nursing Review, 50(3), 167-175.

Mela, M., & McBride, A. J. (2000). Khat and khat misuse: An overview. Journal of Substance Use, 5(3), 218-26.

Messing, S. D., Prince, J. S., & Yohannes, T. (1965). A method of health culture research in African country. Journal of Health and Human Behavior, 6, (4), 261-263.

Mill, J. E. (2001, August). I'm not a "Basaba" woman: An exploratory model of HIV illness in Ghanaian women. Clinical Nursing Research, 10(3), 254-74.

Mill, J. E. (2003, January). Shrouded in secrecy: Breaking the news of HIV infection to Ghanaian women. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 14(1), 6-16.

Mthembu, C. (1981, December). Some aspects of traditional beliefs as they affect tuberculosis treatment. Curationis, 4(3), 28.

Mulder, M. B. (1995). Bridewealth and its correlates--quantifying changes over time. Current Anthropology, 36, 573-603.

Myers, R. A., Omorodion, F. I., et al. (1985). Circumcision: Its nature and practice among some ethnic groups in southern Nigeria. Social Science & Medicine, 21(5), 581-588.

Nader, K., Dubrow, N., & Stamm, B. H. (Eds.). (1999). Honoring differences: Cultural issues in the treatment of trauma and loss. Series in Trauma and Loss. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.

Nindi, B. C. (1993-1995). Ethnomedicine in Southern Africa. Roma, Lesotho: NUL Pub. House.

Odejide, A. O., Oyewunmi, L. K., et al. (1989, June). Psychiatry in Africa: An overview. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146(6), 708-716.

Offiong, D. A. (1999). Traditional healers in the Nigerian health care delivery system and the debate over integrating traditional and scientific medicine. Anthropological Quarterly, 72(3), 118-130.

Ojinnaka, N. C. (2002). Teachers' perception of epilepsy in Nigeria: A community-based study. Seizure: The Journal of the British Epilepsy Association, 11(6), 386-91.

Okitikpi, T., & Aymer, C. (2003, August). Social work with African refugee children and their families. Child and Family Social Work, 8(3), 213-222.

Okonofua, F. (2002). Traditional medicine and reproductive health in Africa. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 6(2), 7-12.

Okpako, D. T. (1986). The impact of traditional African medicine on the use of modern drugs. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, 214, 59-75.

Oyebola, D. D. (1980). Antenatal care as practised by Yoruba traditional healers/midwives of Nigeria. East African Medical Journal, 57(9), 615-625.

Padgett, P. (2002). Folk constructions of Syphillis in an African-American community in Houston, Texas. Culture Health and Sexuality, 4(4), 409-418.

Paisley, J. A., Haines, J., Greenberg, M., et al. (2002). An examination of cancer risk beliefs among adults from Toronto's Somali, Chinese, Russian and Spanish-speaking communities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 93(2), 138-41.

Peek, M. E. (1995). Traditional African medicine. Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 58, 24-9.

Peltzer, K., Onya, H., Seoka, P., Tladi, F. M., & malema, R.N. (2002). Factors at first diagnosis of tuberculosis associated with compliance with the Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) in the Limpopo province, South Africa. Curationis, 25(3), 55-67.*

Pennachio, D. (Feb. 4, 2005). Resources for culturally competent care of black patients. Medical Economics. Retrieved May 5, 2005, from http://www.memag.com/memag/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=143830

Pillay, A. L., & Akoo, A. K. (1993, June). Health beliefs in South Africa. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76(3), 1190.

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Price, R. K., Shea, B. M., & Mookherjee, H. N. (Eds.). (1995). Social psychiatry across cultures: Studies from North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. New York: Plenum Press.


Rekdal, O. B. (1999, December). Cross-cultural healing in East African ethnography. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 13(4), 458-482.

Renzaho, A. M. (2004). Fat, rich and beautiful: Changing socio-cultural paradigms associated with obesity risk, nutritional status and refugee children from sub-Saharan Africa. Health & Place, 10(1), 105-113.

Reynolds, P. (1995). Traditional healers and childhood in Zimbabwe. Cincinnati: Ohio University Press.

Richmond, Y., & Gestrin, P. (1998). Into Africa. Intercultural Insights. Intercultural Press.

Romero-Daza, N. (2002, September). Traditional Medicine in Africa. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political Science, 583, 173-176.

Serkkola, A. (1988). Signification and control of tuberculosis in Somali society: Interaction between chemotheraphy and ethnomedicine. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Institute of Development Studies.

Shaibu, S., & Wallhagen, M. I. (2002). Family caregiving of the elderly in Botswana: Boundaries of culturally acceptable options and resources. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 17(2), 139-154.

Shandy, D. J. (2002, June). Nuer Christians in America. Journal of Refugee Studies, 15(2), 213-221.

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Sobo, E. J. (1993). One blood: The Jamaican body. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Solanke, T. F. (1997, February 20). Communication with the cancer patient in Nigeria: Information and truth. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 809, 109-118.

Somse, P., Chapko, M. K., Wata, J. B., et al. (1998). Evaluation of an AIDS training program for traditional healers in the Central African Republic. AIDS Education and Prevention, 10(6), 558- 564.

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Tagwireyi, D., Ball, D. E., & Nhachi, C. F. (2002, November). Traditional medicine poisoning in Zimbabwe: Clinical presentation and management in adults. Human & Experimental Toxicology, 21(11), 579-586.

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van der Merwe, A. S. (1999). The power of women as nurses in South Africa. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30(6), 1272-1279.

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Worth, H., Denholm, N., & Bannister, J. (2003). HIV/AIDS and the African refugee education program in New Zealand. AIDS Education and Prevention, 15, 346-356.

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