In many parts of Africa, people living with autism and related developmental disabilities are socially isolated. Most African communities often perceive disabilities as a curse. In...
Despite the enormous burden that mental ill-health imposes on individuals, their families, society, health systems and the economy, mental health care remains a neglected area of...
Despite the enormous burden that mental ill-health imposes on individuals, their families, society, health systems and the economy, mental health care remains a neglected area of...
In the first of a three-part series on mental health and activism in Kenya, Noosim Naimasiah writes about the pandemic of mental health breakdown in Kenya....
Many of the continent’s most highly trained mental health professionals migrate outside Africa. The result, sadly, makes global inequalities in access to mental health, worse.
How racialized intellectual outputs placed in just the right circumstances can do the most damage.
Global emerging trends suggest that cyberbullying is now recognised as a serious threat not just to the physical health of people, but also to their emotional...
The number of suicide cases reported in the media has increased in the last several years, but do we have the numbers to make a case...
When we grow up in a religious nation, a huge part of our identity rests on religion/faith/God, whatever you wish to call it. When this is...
My mind had failed me so many times I could no longer trust the ideas it put forth, no matter how brilliant or mundane they were....
On mental health, an article by Dannish Odongo.
While the public debate on mental health is welcome, as a person recovering from a mental disorder, there is need to push a wholesome discussion on...