Cameroon. The Pain Killing Tree

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In late 2013, a Franco-Cameroonian team discovered a painkiller, which man has claimed to have invented, but exists in a natural state in a common African tree, the African peach. Bernard Fontanille travels to a village of the Tikar people. Traditional healer Gaston Amoa knows the African peach well, and calls it the "Ntwo'o." For the Tikars and their neighbors the Pygmies, the plant is critical and its numerous properties help them get through their day-to-day lives.

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