The main focus of this idea is to be between the dibia or traditional medicine and the hospital or medical knowledge of the English. Both systems provide benefits to Efuru, and neither is really painted in a particularly negative light. In the novel Efuru struggles to have a child throughout the book, so she visits a Dibia to find out why. She is warned that she will have difficulty conceiving by a trusty old Dibia and that her marriage is in trouble. Dibia stated that he would do his best to end the fight, but died before informing Efuru of what he is determined to break up his marriage. This moment in the novel can be interpreted as the failure of traditional medicine to keep up with the much more advanced medical knowledge of the colonizers. As the Dibia is unable to put an end to the tragedy that is heading towards Efuru. Yet, for what it's worth, traditional medicine provides a unique insight that the British hospital cannot. For example, dream interpretation which would later become part of mainstream medical thinking only when the ideas of Freud and Jung were accepted. From the dibia, Efuru is able to learn and understand her destiny to become a priestess of the lake goddess. Where traditional medicine fails, imperial medicine succeeds and vice versa. Towards the end of the book Efuru becomes ill and is unable to recover