Africa Daily - How I became me: Cameroon mental health advocate Franca Ma-ih Sulem Yong Akinboboye
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In today's Africa Daily, Alan Kasujja speaks to Franca Ma-ih Sulem Yong Akinboboye.
She campaigns for a better understanding of mental health in Cameroon.
She founded two NGOs, Positive Youths Africa which is based on encouraging positive mental health for young people and Afrogiveness which uses art therapy, amongst other methods, to help survivors of conflict and discrimination.
Her work has reached an estimated 100,000 people.
These include victims of the Boko Haram insurgency which has spilled over from Nigeria into Cameroon and the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon between English and French-speaking parts of the country.
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2025.
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