It takes a village for us to be
Friday, October 21, 2022 | 190 Views |
At home: The village is the heart of traditional Setswana life PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Usually, such is life in a village. Actually, in a village, there isn’t much of a maze of a complicated ecosystem, but often just a simple human plan: here you will live, there will live somebody else; this will be her livelihood, there will be yours; and these will be your elders, there will be hers!
For your part, as for theirs, it isn’t just the wrench of village life, usually simple and sometimes hard, that has spanned your collective consciousness.
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...