Pharmaceutical companies are usually not far from this kind of thing, but we, Africans, ought to take the lead in this task because our lives or way of life may well depend on it. Unless of course, we just to plan to cry 'Exploitation!' as usual, when someone in the West figures out a way to make a buck from it.
ps: there already a few books and articles on the subject:
Sembajjwe, W.S.G. "Sacred Forests in Ganda Society." Uganda Journal 42 (1995): 32-44.
Hamilton, A.C. 1984. Deforestation in Uganda. Oxford University Press, Nairobi.
Ayensu, Edward S. 1978. Medicinal plants of West Africa
Oliver-Bever, Bep. 1986 Medicinal plants in tropical West Africa
Sawyerr, Ebun S. 1983. Medicinal plants of West Africa
Boulos, Loutfy. 1983 Medicinal plants of North Africa
Kokwaro, J. O. 1976. Medicinal plants of East Africa
Sofowora, Abayomi. 1982 Medicinal plants and traditional medicine in Africa
FAO 1986 Some medicinal forest plants of Africa and Latin America
Watt, John Mitchell. 1962. The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa; being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal.
Hamill, Frank Alexander 2001. Studies of the medical ethnobotany of the Buganda kingdom. PhD Dissertation, University of Illinois @ Chicago.
Katende, A.B. et al 1995 Useful trees and shrubs for Uganda : identification, propagation, and management for agricultural and pastoral communities.
Katende, A. B. et al. 1999. Wild food plants and mushrooms of Uganda
etc, etc
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