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African Natural Products Database (ANPDB) Natural products (NPs) have oftentimes represented a source of drugs, drug leads or a "source of inspiration" for the discovery of novel drugs. In a recent survey of the African flora, it was shown that this continent could be a huge repository of bioactive NPs with diverse scaffolds and activities. Consequently, many NPs have been extracted from plants used in traditional African medicine and some of which have already been FDA-approved, such as the antimalarial artemimisin.