Africa, a great continent is known for it’s strong, fearless, men and women. Often times, these thoughts stream from hearing of its ancestors who fought on the battle grounds for justice, independence and liberty from slave owners and colonisers. This brave mentality has undoubtedly defeated uncountable fights, however, it has effectively hidden the freedom associated to disclosing times of sadness that naturally occurs in one’s life. Depression is a serious mood disorder and in many cases, entails one losing interest in daily activities. The feeling of internal lack of calmness is almost the worst experience to have and to think that it is the most common mental disability which has no boundaries when it comes to age, race, religion and species is in itself terrifying. As sad as it is, depression is one of the main things that connects humanity. Unfortunately, the common feelings of hurt, isolation and pain is what connects the human race and people get to live with such fe
For generations, culture created a platform for a group of people to become innovative and expressive of their collective identity, however these expressions in forms of practices have caused society to be comfortable with repression. Discussions concerning the drawbacks that culture brings to its people and society as a whole is one that is often not challenged and most times overlooked, so as to avoid direct confrontation, and to neither disrespect nor upset the feelings of the creators. Majority of these traditional laws sometimes lack factual evidence for the reason of its existence, however it still remains implemented and active in society. Culture emerged as an excuse for men to justify the subordinate roles of women and to demonstrate forms of oppression against the female sex. On numerous occasions, the basic human rights are abused by these traditional practices and these effects encompass both genders and cultural discrimination in the workplace. Cultural stereoty