Study Medicinal Plants in Ghana
International School of Indigenous Plant Sciences
Ethno-botany of African Medicinal Plants - Classes in Ghana
Headquarters Ghana, West Africa & College Park, Georgia
It has officially been announced by Atlanta’s well known Ghanaian ethno-botanist, Dr. Anthony Kweku Andoh. He is presently in Ghana engaged in field and classroom teaching of the medicinal plants of tropical West Africa. After spending the last 30 years in America, he has returned to Ghana to pass his vast knowledge on the students who have a strong desire to learn about the plants that grow in the rainforests to the grasslands of Ghana and West Africa.
Many of you know Dr. Andoh who has engaged, fascinated and entertained the Atlanta community with the nature walks he conducted over the years. From the unique gardens and wilderness estate in South Fulton County he has taught us about the healing plants that grow around us and how we can identify and use them. He traveled throughout the United States teaching the progressive communities about the plants at their local botanical gardens. From Seattle to Los Angeles to San Diego, from New York to Washington DC to Miami, Dr. Andoh has flabbergasted his audiences with his vast knowledge of plants of the world.
Born in Ghana, he is the son of Ghana’s foremost and renowned ethno-botanist, Joseph Emmanuel Andoh, the man who introduced the concept of rainforests at his Alma Mata, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, in England. Dr. Kweku followed his father’s footsteps to study at Kew gardens. He thereafter worked and traveled throughout eastern and southern Africa where his prime objective was the collection and identification of medicinal plants.
Over the past five years Dr. Andoh has taken college students to Haiti and both high school and college students to Ghana to plant Moringa oleifera trees and to study tropical plants. He realized that there is a serious gap that needs to be filled – that is to pass down the science of African plant medicine. The most basic problem confronting students who study with traditional doctors in Africa is that there is no scientific approach to teaching plant identification (Taxonomy) and without this technical training a student’s knowledge of plant medicine is limited to a small community around the traditional doctor’s village.
Dr. Andoh has written many books on ethno-botany, traditional medicine and African religious and spiritual traditions. His classic book, The Science and Romance of Selected Herbs Used in Medicine and Religious Ceremony was selected as one of only two ethno-botany books worthy of including in the Millennium Edition of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Dr. Andoh’s knowledge of plants world-wide is unique and indisputable. We have traveled throughout North America and the Caribbean, Europe as well as throughout Africa. His mission was always to collect and identify local medicinal plants. On our mission to Egypt in 1996 we discovered the true Manna of the Bible which was confirmed and identified by Dr. El Hadidi of Cairo University Botanical Museum.
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