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This study determined the effectiveness of incorporating ethno-chemistry practices into curriculum delivery on students’ interest in chemistry. It adopted a quasi-experimental non-equivalent pre-test-post-test control group design. Three research questions and three hypotheses formulated guided the study. The population of the study consisted of 1,329 senior secondary two (SSII) chemistry students in Obollo-Afor education zone of Enugu state in 2016/2017 academic session. Using stratified simple random sampling technique, 137 students from four co-educational schools in the study area were selected. Chemistry interest scale (CIS) was used for data collection. This was developed by the researcher and validated by experts in test and measurement and chemistry educators from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. The reliability CIS was established as 0.79 using cronbachalpha technique. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviations while hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using ANCOVA. The findings of the study revealed that students’ interest in chemistry improved significantly with the incorporation of ethno-chemistry practices into curriculum delivery. The findings also revealed that female students’ interest improved better than their male counterparts with incorporation of ethno-chemistry practices. It was recommended among other things that curriculum planners should endeavour to enrich curriculum contents with ethno-chemistry practices form different localities in subsequent curriculum review to help the young ones appreciate and sustain their culture for future.