That movement came into sharp focus in Abuja on Saturday as Buttons Medic Centre hosted a Herbal Tea & Wellness Party themed Reconnect, Restore and Rejuvenate at Luna Café, Tsukunda House, Central Area, bringing together wellness advocates, health-conscious professionals, mothers, entrepreneurs and alternative healing enthusiasts for what evolved into more than a lifestyle gathering.
The event, hosted by wellness advocate and entrepreneur Princessa Lucci Aggrey, popularly known as Cessa, transformed into an extended reflection on the collision between African traditional knowledge systems and the pressures of modern urban existence.
A Wellness Conversation Rooted in African Memory
Rather than presenting wellness through the now-familiar language of imported diets, expensive supplements or elite fitness culture, the session centred on indigenous African practices many participants recognised from childhood but had gradually abandoned.
From bitter leaf extracts and black seed consumption to clay pots, chewing sticks, steam therapy, fermented herbs, movement routines and emotional release practices, the discussions repeatedly returned to one message: modern African society may be disconnecting from systems that once helped communities regulate health, stress and social balance.
Cessa argued that many contemporary illnesses are increasingly linked not only to food choices, but also to emotional suppression, sedentary urban lifestyles and the abandonment of traditional community-centred living patterns.
According to her, African societies historically embedded movement, dance, communal interaction, plant-based nutrition and emotional release into daily life long before wellness became commercialised.
She described the digestive system as central to overall wellbeing, linking nutrition directly to mood, reproductive health, cognition and stress management.
“Eat what your ancestors ate,” she repeatedly told participants, framing indigenous grains, vegetables and local herbs not as poverty foods but as biologically compatible nutritional systems shaped across generations.
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