What we do:

Bulk African Trade, or BAT, is an international team focused on bringing Africa's long history of natural medicines to the world wide market. BAT partners with Ghanaian villages to establish medicinal tree farms, otherwise harvested in the wild, putting more stress on these rare plants than they are already experiencing in the face of deforestation.

BAT functions with two branches, a 100% Ghanaian owned company and a German based import/export company. This facilitates our businesses in both regions and allows us to bring our items straight from the source to our customers without any other middlemen.

Our team is comprised of Ghanaian farm managers and medicinal plant specialist. The farms in Ghana are run by the local villages, creating work in rural areas with high unemployment and an opportunity in profit sharing.

At the head of BAT's botanical commercialization are German and American social entrepreneurs, summing up decades of farming and business experience on the African continent.

The richness of the African tropics offers great healing and preventative natural medicines which are becoming less used and forgotten as foreign synthetic medicines begin to flood the local markets. Our efforts are twofold, we inspire to revalue these forgotten medicines in the localities and also share these unique botanicals with the world abroad.

What is Iboga:

For thousands of years, the root bark of the tropical shrub Tabernanthe Iboga has been the basis of a tradition of initiation and healing in the forests of Western Equatorial Africa. It is used as a tool for contacting ancestors, engaging natural spirits and accessing other dimensions to get advice for healing and moral life management.

One of the plant’s alkaloids, Ibogaine, has unique medicinal qualities which are attracting increasing interest from Western researchers and therapists. Ibogaine effectively helps drug addicts to overcome their addiction; it has also increasingly moved into the academic focus as a potential remedy, for Parkinson’s disease and Hepatitis C, as well as for application in the field of psychotherapy.

Iboga in Western Equatorial Africa

The core element of all Iboga traditions is a controlled near-death experience of several days duration. Initiation into the world of the ancestors and spirits through the ingestion of large amounts of Tabernanthe iboga root bark marks the rite of passage into adulthood. The child dies and is reborn as an adult and fully-fledged member of the group. A widespread name for these traditions is Bwiti. Although Gabon is the centre of Bwiti, Iboga is also found in Cameroon and other Western Equatorial African Countries. There are diverse branches of Bwiti, which, besides ethnic differences, also feature differing spiritual fundaments. All of these branches, however, share the use of Iboga as an initiatory sacrament. Bwiti traditions can be found amongst strongly animist-oriented groups located deep in the jungle, only marginally influenced by Western colonialism. However, the more densely populated areas also show syncretic forms of Bwiti, in which parts of the Christian religion are incorporated.

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Tabernanthe Iboga Prices

Powder from $55

Capsules 600mg from $25

Seed Pods from $49

Shipping Included from Ghana

Shipping Time: about 14-21 days

Contact BAT

madoe@bulkafricantrade.de

or go to our order-form or Iboga shop

or use our Botanical shop to order.

BULK AFRICAN TRADE

madoe@bulkafricantrade.de