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Contact UsLike this page?Irene Madonko talks to Bush Doctor.South African reggae star Lucky Dube (Part 3) also spoke to us whilst on his European tour and gave a useful insight on the challenges facing Africans who want to make it in reggae.Bush Doctor (real name Emerson Njawah) launched his career in the nineties.Africans here to crack into reggae, how he made it and where the reggae brand is headed.Irene Madonko
: Why did reggae music appeal to you?When I was growing up, apart from the struggle in Sierra Leone at the time, there was also a struggle in my life.IM
: Is that why you decided to become a reggae singer?BD
: When I was about 21, I was thinking about becoming a doctor, but I knew my dad could not afford university fees although he wanted to.But one day I went to this big competition, I lied to my parents about where I was going.IM
: Was that your first break?IM
: What were the typical challenges you faced when starting up in Africa?BD
: Although this was the nineties, there was no equipment, no proper studios and no promoters.You had to do everything yourself.IM
: Is that why you came to the UK?IM
: What challenges did you face when starting up in the UK?Africans were into pure dancing stuff like Papa Wemba and Koffi Olimide.IM
: Which African reggae artists do you know here?IM
: Why are they still so few African reggae artists here in the UK?Marcus Garvey struggle, even this side.The Rastas are aware, and Jamaicans are aware of the struggle.Any personal information submitted in relation to any comments, queries, feedback or submission to our newsletter is confidential and will only used by the BBC and its service providers strictly for processing your comments and providing our newsletter in accordance with the privacy restrictions set out in the BBC's Privacy Policy.Flying doctors around the African bush!Aviation Resource International Connecting Africa).Anopheles mosquito laden with its deadly cargo of
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The Bush Doctor, the Bush Nurse and the Witch Doctor sat around a large gourd of palm wine chatting away into the night.They all shared a secret which now bonded them together and enforced a mutual respect.The Militia attack on the hospital benefited many.Egunje ventures construction for the marvellous work they did on the hospital.He then announced that Egunje Ventures Electronics had imported 20,000 solar panels and medical fridges for use in all health care establishments.Once again the state statistician was called upon.Road accidents was old new.The commissioner returned to announce the launch of the first made in the City condom; the Egunje Ventures condom.He also drank cold palm wine out of the medical fridge.The peace was broken was cries.Young men rushed out of nowhere holding a bed in the air.They lifted off the Bush King and laid him on his back.Even in death the royal tower stands erect!The Bush Nurse flinched as she looked into dead kings face that bored a devilish smile.She then lowered her gaze.The City Prison Doctor told me that the men he witnessed being hung developed erections sustained after death.How dare you discuss the royal tower?Witch Doctor looking at the Bush Nurse.How will that girl fit into a coffin with legs in the air?He checked her pulse then asked his Bush Nurse to get some Diazepam which he promptly gave.Her rigid muscles went floppy and she soon came to herself.Most astonishingly, the Bush King let out a most agonizing scream.He had actually been examined and referred to a Surgeon already.Coughing babies that settle as soon as they walk into the surgery.Lumps and peristalsis visible after feeds (Pyloric stenosis).Those requesting medication I have no record of and whose name cannot be remembered can photograph the box (showing dose and strenght).Members of the public were weight and height measurements and Body Mass index calculated.Weight circumferences were measured, as were blood pressure and Blood sugar estimations.Good turn out from the Nigerian GPs and Specialists in West Midlands.Bush Doctor in the City.The new patient was pregnant and distressed.Most of the well to do city folk were wary of coming to the Bush for fear of being kidnapped for a ransom.The old militia leader had suddenly disappeared with all the cash and the new leader, a really angry youth, had unleashed a reign of terror.The two end legs of the operating table were raised on stones to effect a head down position.This tipped the baby away from the cervix thereby relieving pressure on the prolapsed umbilical cord.He explained that at 38 weeks old the baby was ready to be delivered.The Witch Doctor was hurriedly summoned.Diazepam was given to relax the patient.The Bush Nurse passed a urinary catheter and put up a drip of Normal saline to inflate the bladder.This also helped to put the baby away from the umbilical cord.The ancestral spirits forbade it.The Bush auxillary nurse was to assist during an operation for the first time.Hope you washed your hands like I taught you?The Bush Doctor started to incise the skin across the lower abdomen, where he had infiltrated with local anaesthesia a few minutes before.Bush Doctor to his assistant.Then I suggest you take off those gloves and go find another job!Bush Doctor to his nurse.Through the peritoneum, then through the womb and next thing the baby was out.The assistant by now was on the floor having passed out in shock and the Bush Nurse ran over to cut the cord.The baby screamed and a cheer rose out side.She even supplies them with cars for hire.He spoke out loud of how the Caesarean section was the way of entry into the world of great men.Great men like Julius Caesar and Robert the Second of Scotland.He spoke of how the great Ugandan Witch Doctors had been performing Caesarian sections long before the white man arrived in Africa with a mortality rate close to zero for mother and child; a feat witnessed by RW Felkin in 1879.The noise of soldiers celebrating outside intensified.Before the news could settle in there was an almighty bang.We are under mortar attack from the militia!Cash and bury is coming!In five minutes the Bush Hospital was devoid of staff, patients or visitors.No such excitement for the Bush Doctor in the City.No, I just drink 20 cups of coffee a day.Too much of a good thing might harm anybody.Who is to say small doses in humans is dangerous?Travelled back in time to a London hospital where I am a junior doctor in obstetrics).The Bush Doctor was so glad to have a day away from the Bush.He had been invited to yet another meeting by the Commissioner of Health; this time in a very plush hotel.We are here to launch the City Laser speed camera programme!The assembled Doctors all looked puzzled while the policemen nodded knowingly.The commissioner now returned to put everyone out of their misery.We shall be equipping our police officers with the tools to cut speed.The Policemen rubbed their hands in glee at the prospect of all those fines.And by the way, have you tested these guns out?We have been running a pilot on the Malu road.The policemen looked hard in the direction of the speaker.Guarding you and taking bribes.Now you have made them worse by equipping them with Laser speed guns!Dr Arugbo was up with another question.Ah, you are indeed the oldest and may I add wisest Doctor around.The rumour doing the rounds was that the CEO had spent more time having breast implants and a tummy tuck than studying ambulance services in London.Please, let us be civil.Dr Arugbo raised his hand.He was the only one bordering to ask questions.The Bush Doctor met the Witch Doctor in the loo.No Alcohol for the Bush Doctor in the City.Enter the destination on my Satellite Navigation and turn the ignition on.Black beauty (my car) has beautiful wipers.Radio and hear two lorries have been involved in an accident about three hours ago and there was chaos ahead.Fountain of Praise CD playing.So, I am burning fuel, wasting time, not getting paid and shedding tears of frustration.Looked around for the lads selling pure water and Gala.The world has millions going through the same thing.This morning was worse for others.The lorry driver who died.Enough was enough with this French volunteer Doctor.The Bush Nurse had said she knew her Oil worker ex boyfriend was a foreign government spy and that she had see a look of recognition in his eyes when he saw the French Doctor.He had initially improved on the intravenous Suramin but had now relapsed.He slept all day on account of the dreaded sleeping sickness.Lymphoma) and was expected back that afternoon.The volunteer Doctor was in tears after they left his bed side.Later that day when they all assembled in his office he went straight to the point.Sorry to bring this up, being such a personal matter and seeing you are so upset about this man with Trypa..The volunteer Doctor hurried out of the room.Early the next morning the Bush Doctor was startled by the noise of a jeep.He scrambled for his hurricane lamp and hurried out.So was the volunteer Doctor with all her belongings.Suddenly the Militia leader ran into the ward very frightened.The federal troops are coming!He dropped his ruck sack on the floor.The Bush Doctor remembered his American dream fund.Bush Nurse was not sure why he agreed to such a strange plan.Surely now they were all accomplices.The soldiers dragged the corpse outside and set it alight.When they had gone the Militia leader took off the bandages from his face, got out of the hospital bed and hugged the bereaved woman.He then grabbed the black bag into which housed the rest of his money and ran back into the bushes.Could this be a wasted journey?And where is this branch Surgery?Thirty minutes later I pulled up in front of a health centre and wondered why someone was locking up.There is something about that chair though.Bush Doctor in the City.The Bush Doctor was getting worried.His intuition, without which practicing medicine without the luxury of a fully equipped laboratory became an impossibility, was declining.She was now having a passionate love affair with the leader of the local militia, whose almost presence at the hospital was becoming a cause for concern.The love birds would then disappear into the creeks for hours.East African was back home ill.The poor mother was beside herself with worry.The Bush Doctor was surprised to find a large group of militia youths and two foreign men in tow.Their leader was passing and had come to drop a gift for his French lover.The Bush Nurse went berserk when he saw the captured white men; oil workers.The militia boys thought it funny.Once in his office, he begged for an end to these visits.The Militia leader suddenly broke own in tears.He was in love and would be eloping to France with his new love.The militia leader took off his rucksack and counted the money out in clean bills in silence.You mother is a good woman.He mum had just become the collateral in this deal.Two hours later the volunteer Doctor was screamed excitedly while she sat with her eye over the microscope.The Bush Doctor and his nurse both took turns looking at the parasites .She motioned for him to drag a chair over.That man did so much for Africa.No such diagnosis for the Bush Doctor in the city.In medicine, the customer is always right.As she gets on the examination couch I notice how frail she has become.She said good bye, made for the door and then turned back.Is this tablet good for Cancer?You should be on Cyclophosphamide.It was a good thing she asked that question.Bush Doctor in the City.Once this French girl returns to her station, his American dream fund will receive a boost he thought.He wished they had asked him first.All he would have asked for was antibiotics, ready to use therapeutic foods and surgical equipment.Last night had been dramatic.The cold night had a different kind of effect on the Bush nurse who let herself in with her keys.She jumped into the bed and soon both women were screaming their heads off in the dark.It took while to find his Bush lamp and calm them down.Someone has reported his buttock ulcer has returned and it was currently harbouring maggots.The volunteer ran back out.The Bush Doctor had to smile, there was no such patient.He had done it once before and almost killed a woman.The volunteer Doctor joined in the laughter.But I thought that practice went out years ago.In your country, do not the terrorist ring to warn about bombs about to go off?Would you call your emergency services accomplices?He lives at home and the Police has raided the family home on a tip off.Wants it logged down that he had sought help for his drug habit.His lawyer had apparently advised him to come.Went with family or alone?You left your wife alone all this while.Bush Doctor in the City.The Bush Doctor had been most impressed with a TV programme he had watched over the weekend in the city.MTV cribs it was called.His morning ward round would have been ideal for the show he thought.Of all the names, Necator americanus was the best; must be a Tommy Hilfiger wearing worm he thought.The types one saw in tropical medicine books.Next to them was the yellowed eyes sickle cell anaemic boy in a crisis; had that characteristic protruding forehead and teeth.Koplick spots visible each time she cried.The Bush Doctor started to reply but the words never came.The Bush Nurse followed his eyes.Bush Doctor pointing his stethoscope at the elderly patients in the corner as he spoke.Their leader motioned for his group to go out.Driving on the M42 in heavy rain.Mainly ticking boxes and a brief medical examination.Good thing I brought my Oxford Handbook of General Practice.For some reason, I keep getting drawn to the Pyschiatric sections.Read about Generalised anxiety disorders.This was when the power failure occurred).At one stage I was tempted to extract yesterdays newspaper from the bin but my pride got the better of me.Bush Doctor in the City.Vol 15
The Bush Doctor had a special patient in his office.It was his turn to warn the Bush Nurse to conduct herself in a professional manner.Twelve months ago, when the cataracts first came to light, the Bush nurse had done the unforgivable.Unfortunately the Witch Doctor heard about this.Practically everyone in the Bush had to beg on her behalf before the Witch Doctor withdrew charges.An election was approaching and he had too many politicians on his books.Oh, now she wants to retire, eh?Cataracts are just the beginning.Soon a clitoris will grow out of her eyes!The reason she was so upset was a girl on the ward who was needed to have genital wounds surgically repaired after profuse blood loss following a blotched circumcision attempt.The Bush Nurse had fumed through out the procedure.The Bush Doctor crossed his legs every time he remembered what was said.Cut the long one at the top commot (away) but I do not think the injection working because my 12 years daughter crying.Her hand was shaking as she was managing to hold the knife.She then rub something on it and stitch the vagina close and tied the legs together.Bush Nurse bringing him back to the present.You know she is the only one who practices infibulation.If you men want to marry virgins, then sleep with only your wives.None of his female patients have been circumcised this year (although there is always the chance someone might sneak out of the country during the summer holidays to have it done).Can spread to involve the orbit.Well, that is talking it too far though.Will see again with blood results.Heavy drinker for 2 years and has been injecting Heroin for 6 months.Always a good sign when patient comes alone.The ones dragged in by wives or girl friends tend to attend the consultation in body only but not in spirit.Dad and three brothers all drank heavily.BM knows the problems that alcohol can bring better than I, (reading books can never equate with leading the life) yet most of the day is spend around drinking.Seems like that is the only life he knows.He might however have to avoid his brothers as they met up everyday for a drink.Bush Doctor in the City.Well, no one except the Witch Doctor and the local militia youths made good through hostage taking.The Bush Nurse coughed and he almost jumped out of his skin.She led him to the corner of the ward reserved for children.Ready to use therapeutic foods.Bush Nurse said to the Village drunkard who walked out wondering what he had said wrong.Like most men in the Bush, he felt no bond with his children.Not till they got to the age of 10 years.After that age, the chances of surviving in the Jungle became brighter.The skin on the legs gave the appearance of a snake in the process of moulting.He wobbled the abdomen from side to side.The Bush Doctor was now getting impatient.Later that night the Bush Doctor visited the Witch Doctor who was in high spirits.After a few kegs of palm wine, the Witch Doctor began to boast of the two houses he was building in the city.Before leaving, the Bush Doctor had extracted a promise from the Witch Doctor to publicly bless the next batch of RUTF (Ready to use therapeutic foods) in the market square when they arrive and to say the ancestors have certified their use in children to prevent Kwashiorkor.The Bush Doctor in the City was off duty today.After Church went with daughter to Chinese restaurant.They eat like they were being paid to do so.On the other side, there was this family of slim people.While standing at the main entrance to the Jarvis Centre and looking at both entrances to the Marathon registration area on the right and the ADA Expo area to the left, I noticed two things.Most people went with family or friendsEach family unit has similar body weightsThose registering for the marathons and their families looked thin and those patients and their families going to the Diabetic Expo were mostly overweight.His father Gary Hall Snr also swam in 3 Olympic events).Olympic medal in my hands.Bush Doctor in the City.Mosquito net and had tortured him throughout the night.The mosquito made noises around his ear.The Bush nurse was hysterical.The bereaved mother was consoling the Bush nurse.The Bush Doctor led his nurse away to the office.As soon as I walked in the ward I knew something was wrong.The Bush Doctor had feared for the Albino baby girl the minute she was born.His nurse was also an Albino, a very emotionally charged one at that and he had to pick his words carefully.And what did the mother say?She knew he knew what the mother had done.Bush nurse spoke in a whisper.By the time they got back to the ward, the mother and baby had discharged themselves.There was the stigma and superstition attached to owing skin which had defective melanocytes.Ironic for a community that used all sorts of herbal portions and creams to lighten the skin.The job prospects were not good and the sun was a problem.Even the Bush Doctor was scared of the sun.Bush, and in the Bush blessings are converted to curses.The was no sun for the Bush Doctor in the City for the weather was cold and windy.Hit the streets for a spot of running.It is raining and staying indoors would have been more comfortable.Food previously eaten is oxidated in muscle mitochondria to provide energy for the running.There was a time I used to be in oxygen debt before I even started running!One sees this on display during 100m races.Beyonce has a song about this).The muscles work but the mind is relaxed and can thing of nice things.Breathing capacity improves over long distances as does endurance capabilities.Long distance runners have large hearts and slow pulses.The heart enlarges and develops an increased pumping capability.Running in the rain or snow exposes one to the risk of slipping and breaking something.And if you live in Lagos someone might shout Ole and you are dead meat.Went for my weekly dose of General Practice education at our local hospital.Now, I have been to many lectures in my time.Those guys always seem to have slides of faces dissected up that make grown Doctors throw their faces away in horror.However, today, rather than talk of the disease as a disease, the talk seemed to humanise each symptom, each statistic; the speaker made you so aware he was talking about human beings.Now all medicine is about human beings, but say you are learning the complications of a disease, you do not cry each time a complication is mentioned.Now this Cystic Fibrosis, has no cure.Life expectancy has improved to what it was before; mid forties perhaps.Other problems are those of excessive salt loss in sweat, risk of Diabetes and Liver problems developing and then male infertility.Because of the screening in place, cases are now being diagnosed before the onset of symptoms.So, three days after celebrating a birth, you get called by a specialist to tell you little Johnny is not as good as he seems.How is he going to manage?Run the country and look after his child.Will services in Renal Medicine receive a boast seeing how the New President suffered with kidney problems?How will he cope with running the country?Bush Doctor in the City.Bush Doctor in the City.Bush Doctor in the City.Bush Doctor in the City.Angus on Bush Doctor in the City.Bush Doctor in the City.Laspapi
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