What is Afrocentric Model

This chapter aimed to examine the terminology of traditional medicine and the urgency for supporting local knowledge through technology in medical libraries. The chapter was informed by three research objectives which are: categories of traditional medicinal knowledge practitioners available in rural areas; types of traditional medicinal knowledge digitized in medical libraries; and technologies for digitizing traditional medicinal knowledge in medical libraries. The approach for the investigation was a desktop literature review. The study used academically recognized journals, books, and databases as its primary sources of literature. The author also strongly drew on his prior experience in the field, as he had already published several publications on indigenous knowledge. The author also presumptively conducted an electronic search of published literature, heavily depending on the Web of Science, using the institutional repositories of universities, Google Scholar, and Medline.