On Monday May 2, Dr. Mary Charwi from the University of Dar es Salaam arrived in Ghent for a three-month research stay at BantUGent, which is co-financed by the Global Minds Fund of Ghent University and the Commission Scientific Research (CWO) of the UGent Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. With Prof. Koen Bostoen and his team she will work on an Ethnobotanical and Ethnolinguistic Study of Kuria Medicinal Plants. Kuria is a Bantu language spoken in the Mara region of Northern Tanzania, adjacent to Lake Nyanza/Victoria.
