Abstract The growing number of zoonotic diseases in the last few decades, caused by increasing human-nature interactions and the devastating impacts of global climate change on health, has compelled global stakeholders to start considering the need for a paradigm shift in global public health governance. In this paper, I show that although the One Health approach is one of the most recent global responses to the growing human-environmental health crises, indigenous people around the world have some of the earliest and enduring examples of the idea of One Health. I demonstrate this by examining the indigenous African notion of health as one of such examples. It is a wholistic and interconnected outlook, where health is perceived as moral, spiritual, ecologic and cosmic harmony. When the health of part of this integrated universe is threatened, the entire universe is in peril. According to this African conception of health, no individual can be considered healthy if a member of the community is sick. There is solidarity not only between created beings, but also between the natural and the supernatural world. I show that some ideas from the African relational view of
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