Your child gets a violent outburst of anger. Goes crazy on his little sister. Strikes and kicks. Puha… I know it well, and you have certainly tried to be in a similar situation as a parent. Often. You get frustrated and angry. You smoke all the way up in the red box. And you know […]
FLAVIA NASSAKA March 19, 2019 Health, In The Magazine, Interview, Society catergory Haruna Nyanzi Bujirita is an Addictionologist and consultant in Child and Adolescents Mental Health. He is also CEO of MetroHealth International that’s setting up the country’s first private mental hospital in Ttula-Kawempe in Kampala. He spoke to The Independent’s FLAVIA NASSAKA about addiction and why mental health is still
The dramatic success of Gender Studies has rested on three developments: (1) making women’s lives visible, which has also come to mean making all genders more visible; (2) insisting on intersectionality and so complicating the category of gender; (3) analyzing the tensions among global and local iterations of gender. Through textual analyses and humanities-based studies
Jennifer Nataka Mental illness rarely gets a burst of serious national attention in Uganda. The norm dictates that suspected patients must seek first-line treatment in form of psychological help or see mental-health clinicians. But in Uganda that is a rarity. Some, especially in rural and slum areas, run to witchdoctors, who try to exorcise “evil spirits”
Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail Meet Ozlem Sara Cekic, Denmark’s female Muslim MP who meets neo-Nazis for tea and cake Since leaving parliament, the former member for the Socialist People’s Party (SF) has made it her life’s work to open dialogue between the far right and mainstream Danish society.
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