Continuing the Journey: Final Thoughts, Connections, Questions

This section is not just a conclusion, but rather an invitation to the visitor to reflect on what is universal about African health, medicine, and healing, and what is unique about it. Insofar as visitors will have seen bridges to their own experiences, they are invited to imagine their own healing journeys.

• How do we visualize health and sickness in our Western (or other) culture?
• How do we relate our health to the environment, to our adaptive relationships to resources, materials, and the natural world?
• To what extent do we link social determinants to health?
• What is our equivalent to divination—the unscrambling of relationships, emotions, concerns over security?
• What are the objects that express these realities— visually, verbally, bodily, in medical materials?