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Mental illness: Invisible but devastating
- Source: Africa Renewal, Volume 30, Issue 3, Mar 2017, p. 18 - 19
- French
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- 13 Mar 2017
Abstract
When American film actor Robin Williams, who suffered from depression, committed suicide two years ago, Kenyan humour writer Ted Malanda feigned incredulity. “I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that depression is an illness…In fact, it is such a non-issue that African languages never bothered to create a word for it,” he wrote in his newspaper, The Standard, under the headline “How Depression Has Never Been an African Disease.”
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