Mexborough and Swinton Times November 1, 1929
Meet Mr. Edgar M. Knight
“The African Medicine Man.”
A picturesque figure in the life of Wombwell is Mr. Edgar M. Knight, better known perhaps as “The African Medicine Man.”
Mr. Knight is conspicuous in a crowd if for no other reason than that he is black. “A gentleman of colour,” as they say; he is proud of it too.
As he says, “Colour is nothing; brains and personality make the man.”
Many people having lately become acquainted with Mr. Knight in his great work of healing, a word or two about his life and antecedents will be of interest. Edgar Moses Knight told an interviewer that he is a native of Abyssinia and the son of an Abyssinian chief.
Memories of his boyhood days are enshrouded in native superstitions and recollections of fierce tribal wars. Wide through the landscape of his dreams sweep visions of tropical forest and glimpses of a spacious land peopled by folk like himself. Born a Mohammedan but converted to the Christian faith, he came to England in 1912 for education, When war broke out he was in the United States. He returned to England immediately and. joined the British Army, serving throughout the war as a machine gunner.
Demobilised in May, 1919, Mr. Knight devoted himself at once to a close study of the healing of human ailments. He does not claim mystical powers nor does he profess to be a worker of miracles, but by natural curative methods he claims to have restored innumerable sick people to a state of perfect physical fitness and good health.
Mr. Knight adheres strictly to nature’s way of healing, believing that whether it be known to man or not, nature has provided a remedy for every ailment that human flesh is heir to. He works with herbs. Mr. Knight is a living advertisement of the efficacy of his own Methods of maintaining good health. Despite hard work and an age that few would believe if they were told, he is as fit as a fiddle. It is this -blessing ot good health that Mr. Knight wishes to pass on ‘to others.
“Why am I so fit?” he asked, ‘striking his chest vigorously. :”How is it that I thrive in this climate when many people, have lost their birthright of good health and are going about with one leg in the grave, as you white people say? That is the result of my methods.”
A man of culture and refinement, Mr.Knight has associated with all classes. He claims that as a result of his treatment hundreds of people in every walk of life are blessing him with every breath they take. _
His services are now at the disposal of Wombwell people at
Knight’s Herbal Parlour,
7, Church Street, ‘Wombwell.