The African Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Second Edition, is a definitive reference work that brings together the most authoritative scientific and ethnobotanical knowledge on 30 of the most important medicinal plants in Africa.

This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons, who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s to 1950s, to highlight their intentions during the tumultuous period in the Gold Coast Colony (part of present-day Ghana) from roughly 1874 to independence from the British on March 6, 1957.

Africa and especially Sub-Saharan Africa has during the past decade witnessed one of the fastest growing markets in mobile communication. This growth is recognized to have played a pivotal role in Africa’s socio-economic development.