1. Introduction
Voacanga africana belongs to Apocunum, which has been found
to be an affluent source of many types of alkaloids as well as other
small molecules of pharmacological operation (Duru and Onye-
dineke, 2010a,b; Ameyaw and Duker-Eshun, 2009). Since Labarre
separated voacaline from Voacanga africana fruits in 1956, a range