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I went to see a Xhosa herbalist 🇿🇦 [S5 – Eps. 17]
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
Part of Itchy Boots’ Season 5 journey through Southern Africa, this episode turns to a cultural encounter on South Africa’s Wild Coast. While staying in Bulungula, the traveler meets a Xhosa herbalist and learns about the medicinal uses of plants growing in the area.
About this film
The film places local knowledge at the centre of a motorcycle-travel story. The meeting offers a close look at how plants are used to make medicine, shared through the perspective of a Xhosa herbalist. Rather than treating travel only as movement between destinations, the episode gives space to learning from someone whose knowledge is rooted in the place being visited. Its focus is on the encounter and the exchange around plant use.
The journey
The episode takes place during a stay in Bulungula, on the South African Wild Coast, within the series’ Southern Africa season. The journey’s emphasis here is less on route detail than on time spent in one location and meeting a local resident. The herbalist shows how different plants that grow there are used to make medicine, connecting the visit to the surrounding landscape and to Xhosa cultural knowledge. The film frames openness and respect as part of the experience of travel.
What to expect
- A cultural encounter during Itchy Boots’ Southern Africa journey
- A local Xhosa herbalist sharing medicinal
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