This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of
decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they …

In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human
rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid …

Psychiatry in Uganda has a fine pedigree. Academic psychiatry was established in the late
1960s when the Makerere University Department of Psychiatry was founded. Academic …

Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Working in the contexts of decolonization and anticolonial nationalism, Nigerian …

As is true throughout the world, Ugandans with lived experience of mental illness, including
survivors and those still in treatment or care, have been historically disregarded and …

This article traces the career of Thomas Adeoye Lambo, the first European-trained
psychiatrist of indigenous Nigerian (Yoruba) background and one of the key contributors to …

Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance
tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in …

Dertien jaar geleden werkte ik als tropenarts in Zuid-Senegal en Guinee Bissau. Na mijn
terugkeer in Nederland volgde ik een psychiatrie-opleiding en vertrok vervolgens weer naar …

Contemporarily the discourse that shapes African approaches to psychosocial disability1 is
substantially influenced by the continent's colonial history. In most African countries, laws …

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental
illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the …