Preterm births are associated with enduring trauma for mothers.
- Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
Inmates who are mothers tend to be accused of being bad parents.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
There is a great deal of nuance around how young women negotiate their intimate relationships with men.
A psychologist and a literary scholar analyse Faceless, a powerful novel about homeless children - and their mothers.
A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country’s brutal past in order to heal and move forward.
Many societies in Africa still draw heavily on their traditional beliefs and cultural heritage. Therefore it’s important to take these into consideration when psychology is taught and practised.
African leaders can make strategies to fight COVID-19 more accessible to the people.
Persistent challenges of the past and the present burden women with unspoken traumas, but art such as needlework is a way to break the silence.
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