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O Kimbanda Kambia

O Kimbanda Kambia

1979 · 41 min

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares medicines, the women who help him with these preparations, and talks about his practice - how he treats cases of madness, epilepsy, spirit and witchcraft possession.

Directed by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

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