How can l connect the secondary metabolites of the plant with antimalarial , and also the functional group found in the plant, how can l connect a discussion of this with antimalarial activity.
From your expression, you can not connect the presence of secondary metabolites to antimalarial activity unless you isolate this metabolites and investigate them for antimalarial activity.
Alternatively, you can read pass works where the plant was use to investigate its antimicrobial activity against other microbes. Look at what they discovered, the results obtained and what was responsible for the activity. Yet, you still have to determine which metabolites are responsible for the activity experimentally.