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ABSTRACT

Extant studies particularly lessons and notes of medical historians have established that man in his quest to dominate and take over his environment has in the course altered the original arrangement of the earth crust and its components, thereby disturbing the original configuration of ecosystem. In this process, other organisms were exposed, resulting in health risk, disease, epidemic and later pandemics. In the case of Africa, it has been established that man over the years have been able to bring this disease under control through the use of trees, roots and herbs (traditional medicine). However, despite records of proven efficacy and efficiency of Africa’s roots and herbs, the West, World Health Organisation and their allies still show disdain to Traditional Medical practices and their products and as such there exist some form of hostility harboured by the modern medical practitioners against the use of traditional medicine. This in the opinion of this research could prevent Africa and Africans from contributing meaningfully to the fight against COVID 19 pandemic in modern history. This research is, therefore, an attempt at counting possible economic and health losses the world would incur by neglecting herbs and roots products of Africa traditional medical system during this period of Coronavirus (Covid 19) Pandemic. From the perspective of Economic History, data obtained from primary and secondary sources were deployed to carry out the study with an analytical and narrative historical approach (evidence gathering). The primary source for this research is based on field investigations conducted in the area and surrounding territories. Among other things, the data collection process includes semi-structured interviews with individuals. The research also uses historical documents from the national archives, relying on previous research conducted on issues of the history of disease and spread, in addition to documentary data taken from newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and verbal reports.