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Africa: the traumatised continent, a continent with hope

2003; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1192/s1749367600007608

1749-3684

Frank Njenga, Pius Kigamwa, Max Okonji,

Child and Adolescent Health

Many African countries gained political independence in the 1960s and 1970s and went through difficult times in economic, political and security terms in the 1980s and early 1990s. Mental health services and research were not spared and stagnated or deteriorated during this period. The effects of poor governance, inequitable distribution of resources and environmental degradation conspired with natural and man-made disasters (wars in particular) to drive Africa into an abyss of despair.