As a Traditional South African Healer/Sangoma, Rebecca Rogerson aka Gogo Nomadlozi, M.A. (she/her) trained in Soweto, South Africa with Gogo J. Skosana, then in  Gaborone, Botswana with Rra Sebape, and was accepted as family by Ntate Drake Koka, Gauteng, and Cree Elder Vern Harper in so-called Canada.

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She has a deep respect for the spiritual and cultural heritage these teachings are rooted in and does all she can to carry the medicine in a good way, and to be responsible, respectful, accountable, reciprocal and interrelational.

 

​​Rebecca was an international consultant specializing in HIV and AIDS and traditional healing and medicine in Southern Africa at community-based, medical, and national policy levels for over a decade.

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She has presented at various juried conferences worldwide and has earned international recognition for her work as a practitioner. 

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Rebecca has contributed to various academic, public and private sector publications, and has authored multiple editions of the tertiary level textbook HDEV (2017, 2021 & 2024) as well as had her social-justice-informed poems, Exodus and Homecoming (2024) published.

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Rebecca taught in the Social Service Worker Program at Seneca College in Toronto for almost a decade. She has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a thesis focus on Bungoma healing practices as a decolonization praxis.

 

During her time at York University, Rebecca was a sole participant and a co-author of a neuroscientific paper about changes in brain chemistry when in a perceived trance. 

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Rebecca maintains her private practice on the tmxʷúlaʔxʷ of the unceded Sinixt in so-called British Columbia, where she is establishing a liberatory healing space centring the care, support and healing needs of local and international BIPOC peoples.

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She returns to South Africa as often as she can to visit family and offer consultations at a reduced/free cost, and to collect herbal medicine. She provides remote consultations for people all over the world. 

 

(Picture from Makhosi Elliot Ndlovu's homestead, KZN, South Africa 2001).