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Unfortunately, drugs targeting AR have demonstrated toxicity, adverse reactions, and a lack of specificity. This study aims to explore African indigenous compounds with high specificity as potential AR inhibitors for pharmacological intervention.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methodology<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 7,344 compounds from the AfroDB, EANPDB, and NANPDB databases were obtained and pre-filtered using the Lipinski rule of five to generate a compound library for virtual screening against the Aldose Reductase. The top 20 compounds with the highest binding affinity were selected. Subsequently, <jats:italic>in silico<\/jats:italic> analyses such as protein-ligand interaction, physicochemical and pharmacokinetic profiling (ADMET), and molecular dynamics simulation coupled with binding free energy calculations were performed to identify lead compounds with high binding affinity and low toxicity.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Five natural compounds, namely, (+)-pipoxide, Zinc000095485961, Naamidine A, (\u2212)-pipoxide, and 1,6-di-o-p-hydroxybenzoyl-beta-d-glucopyranoside, were identified as potential inhibitors of aldose reductase. Molecular docking results showed that these compounds exhibited binding energies ranging from \u221212.3 to \u221210.7 kcal\/mol, which were better than the standard inhibitors (zopolrestat, epalrestat, IDD594, tolrestat, and sorbinil) used in this study. The ADMET and protein-ligand interaction results revealed that these compounds interacted with key inhibiting residues through hydrogen and hydrophobic interactions and demonstrated favorable pharmacological and low toxicity profiles. Prediction of biological activity highlighted Zinc000095485961 and 1,6-di-o-p-hydroxybenzoyl-beta-d-glucopyranoside as having significant inhibitory activity against aldose reductase. Molecular dynamics simulations and MM-PBSA analysis confirmed that the compounds bound to AR exhibited high stability and less conformational change to the AR-inhibitor complex.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study highlighted the potential inhibitory activity of 5 compounds that belong to the African region: (+)-Pipoxide, Zinc000095485961, Naamidine A, (\u2212)-Pipoxide, and 1,6-di-o-p-hydroxybenzoyl-beta-d-glucopyranoside. 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