This Saturday, I bring you my conversation with Fr Anselm Adodo, the founder of Nigeria’s leading plant medicine research laboratory, Pax Herbals. Fr Anselm is a Benedictine priest at the Ewu monastery in Edo State and his work exeplifies a wide range of expertise spanning education, environmentalism, social work. Fr Adodo’s unwavering commitment is to inspire individuals and promote collaboration between academia and industry, paving the way for transformative advancements in healthcare.

In this conversation, perhaps more than any other in this project, we kept returning to how one’s material conditions affect their ability to see the bigger picture and tap into the healing that comes from meaning-making and re-storying one’s life, a task that requires vulnerability and integrity. 

00:00 Introduction to Sweet Medicine Podcast

00:59 Father Anselm Adodo: A Journey of Healing and Discovery

09:27 Education and the genius of the local

14:40 How have Nigerians been taught to think?

17:58 The Impact of Capitalism on Nigerian Society

26:10 Social Innovation and Densu in Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel The Healers

30:31 Case Studies of Integrated Living in Africa

36:41 Thank you.

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