For many, the word rainforest is synonymous with the endangered Amazon Basin, as if that were Earth’s only endangered patch of healing green. Africa, the Mother Continent and allegedly the birthplace of the entire human race, remains largely ignored. Yet African wild lands are as endangered as the Amazon. Equally endangered are the traditional indigenous cultures of Africa, caretakers of sophisticated botanical medicinal systems whose roots stretch back to the proverbial dawn of time.

A Healing Grove preserves this knowledge, presenting it as relevant and viable and demonstrating in intimate detail how vestiges of that knowledge took root in the Western Hemisphere, in African American culture, and in American culture, period. A Healing Grove celebrates the forest: its powers, spirits, magic, medicine, and mysteries.