00:00One of the discoveries on this journey that is shocking to me as I walk through this market is how much wildlife and in some cases very endangered wildlife is on sale here.
00:12There's no doubt that where there's tribal culture, there's going to be traditional medicine, but I had no idea to what degree this included wildlife.
00:23As we journey deeper into the market, I notice more and more vendors trading animal body parts.
00:36And I'm eager to understand just what role these animal parts have to play in traditional medicine.
00:41With animals, they're mainly used symbolically. It's very rare that you're actually going to ingest something and you only need a very small amount of it either.
00:53If there's economic disempowerment or impoverished communities, then they would be looking for things that make them lucky.
01:00Vultures would be perhaps used to help you see where the money is.
01:04The sticky tongue of the chameleon would be used symbolically in terms of holding on to the money. So you've got the money, now you've got to hold on to it.
01:10This is actually a striped polecat, the African equivalent of a skunk.
01:14What he's telling me is that you take the fat of the skunk, you take a piece of his skin which we've got down there and you put the skin in your pocket and you rub the fat on your face.
01:24And because of the way these animals move in the bush, they go back and forth, they move in the bush.
01:29That's going to protect you from a thief coming up to you and taking your stuff.
01:35A huge amount of what we see here as well is for sexual prowess.
01:40That is a very big part of many, many tribal cultures.
01:44And so this is a very odd looking mixture.
01:50It's a nice one.
01:52It's a nice one?
01:53It's a nice one.
01:54I'm not sure if it's a nice one. He assures me it tastes delicious.
01:59What?
02:04I don't know.
