I am Anselm Adodo
ABOUT ME
Benedictine monk. Founder of Paxherbals. Scholar of African medicine, philosophy and community
I am a Benedictine monk of the community at Ewu, in Edo State, Nigeria, and a Catholic priest. My life turns on one question: how do faith, nature and community heal a person and a people?
African medicinal plants
African medicinal plants
Documenting and testing the healing knowledge held in Nigerian and West African plants, and bringing it into a clinical setting without cutting it from its roots. Paxherbals is where that work lives.
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African knowledge and philosophy
Why the knowledge Africa needs will not come from copying Western models. Drawn from Yoruba, Igbo and Esan thought, and argued in Afrikology and The Idea of the Communiversity.
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Community economy
Capitalism, socialism and communism were each imposed on the continent. Communitalism is my account of what an African economy of community could be instead.
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Benedictine life and formation
The monastery as a school of hospitality, listening and shared work, and what it offers institutions far outside the cloister.
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Dr. Aneeqa Malik
Fr Anselm Adodo's work is a ray of hope for Africa, Nigeria, and the world. He has successfully demonstrated a practical way of living a conscious ecological life, being one with the spirit of nature while caring for our community, too.