This category explores Indigenous Knowledge Systems as they relate to pregnancy, childbirth, and maternal wellbeing. It documents the practices, understandings, and embodied forms of care that have long guided maternal health in African communities, highlighting how knowledge is lived, transmitted, and sustained outside formal clinical settings.
Every journey begins with a first step and every story begins with a voice.
Here, we begin telling the stories of maternal care as it is lived in communities, shaped by Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and carried through generations of women, men, caregivers, and families.