Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell, a distinguished sangoma and practitioner of traditional African medicine, has dedicated his life to bridging indigenous healing practices with contemporary society. Born in 1963 in Zimbabwe, Colin was raised in rural southeastern Botswana, immersed in the rich cultural heritage of the Tswana people. His father, Alec Campbell, was a celebrated cultural historian and archaeologist, and Colin often accompanied him on his travels through Africa to visit and document sacred sites. This unique upbringing provided Colin with an intimate understanding of traditional African medicinal and ritual practices from an early age.

In the 1980’s Colin moved to Cape Town and earned a Fine Arts degree with distinction from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. During his studies, he also delved into psychology and African musicology. Notably, during the Apartheid era, he collaborated clandestinely with outreach medical students, serving as an African medicine practitioner in South African townships.

Colin’s professional journey is marked by his commitment to facilitating international group processes related to natural law, transformation, healing, personal power, sacred sites, and cross-cultural cosmology. His work has taken him from the Amazon Basin to Los Angeles, the sacred sites of Venda to the urban landscapes of Johannesburg, and from remote Ethiopia to the City of London. He co-founded and co-runs a training school in Botswana for traditional doctors and sangomas with his brother, Niall Campbell. 

Colin’s unique synthesis of African cultural knowledge, Jungian psychology, and modern artistic practices has culminated in the development of unique wilderness-based psycho-spiritual approaches. These methodologies aim to reconnect individuals from diverse backgrounds to the broader natural environment, facilitating the restoration of lost or fragmented aspects of contemporary human culture. Presently, Colin is focused on writing and continues to engage with individuals and groups in South Africa, Botswana and the UK as a diviner, educator, and public speaker.  His life’s work continues to inspire individuals worldwide to reconnect with ancestral knowledge and the natural world, fostering a more ensouled and ecologically balanced existence.