• Tabara Korka Ndiaye

The last film of underappreciated Senegalese director, Khady Sylla dealt with mental health. It is worth revisiting it now for its groundbreaking portrayal of depression suffered by two women friends.

• Edna Bonhomme

The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.

• Esther A. Armah

Existing models of racial healing center whiteness and demand the emotional labor of Black folk, fetishizing reconciliation but forsaking justice.

• Andile Zulu

Anxious and isolated, living in poverty or financial precarity, we sink into ourselves and adopt self-destructive coping mechanisms.

• Julian Manyika

A new book weaves science, history, philosophy and personal narrative in a refreshing and more globally inclusive look at depression.

• Shose Kessi

How psychologists can and should become advocates for African and African feminist critiques of academia and of society.

• Ursula M Read

Ghana is slowly developing its mental health care to protect human rights. Yet sensationalist journalism, including in the progressive media, continues to portray the treatment of mental health in the country as backward and abusive.

• Victor Makanjuola
• Matthew M. Heaton

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.

• Ana Vinea

The increasing visibility of Qur’anic healing in Cairo intersects with psychiatry’s growing foothold in public awareness, creating fertile ground for debates about affliction, care, and expertise.

• Jonathan Duncan

The diagnostic parameters need to be completely overhauled as they embody a Western mode of understanding which itself is culturally bound.

• Olufemi Terry

The writer revisits his notes from 2005 when he visited Acholiland, the site of a conflict between the LRA and Uganda's military.

• Dan Moshenberg