'A melting pot of amazing narratives'
Friday, April 13, 2007
African Love Stories: An Anthology is compiled and edited by Ama Ata Aidoo. I first worked with Ama Ata Aidoo in Kenya in 1969. She then moved back home to Ghana and I visited her at the University of Cape Coast where she was teaching. Eventually she became Minister of Education in Accra in the 1980s.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...