Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Alarm: Namibia battles with high suicide cases by Tony Ademiluyi

This is so sad! I hope something is done about it. Namibia is a nation that has had its own share of pains and sufferings in the past. Hopefully WHO will come to the rescue now that this has captured the world attention. I read somewhere that Nigeria has the highest rate of suicide in Africa and holds about the sixth place in the whole world. That is scary. Unfortunately, when social conditions pose extreme challenges, regardless of individual's determination to ignore them, they affect the person and agitate the mind. I pray for respite for Mother Africa!

MOA

On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 10:02:44 AM EDT, 'ugwuanyi Lawrence' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

"According to NewsGhana.com, Namibia's latest national suicide statistics reveal that 559 people committed suicide between January 2021 and May 2022, with the bulk of the cases being both adult and juvenile males, an official said Wednesday.

The numbers continue to spike despite the southwestern African nation's suicide prevention task force launched last year to deal with the rising number of suicide cases."

 

 

To know a thing you need to know the cause -how and why it became/ has become what it is.

 How did suicide become as an option in Nambia in the way reported here? Until this knowledge is rigorously achieved, it is doubtful how far solutions devoted to preventing the problem can go. Human problems sometimes probably grow faster than solutions! So if AU should offer any reliable help to solve this problem, it probably should  start with/ or be accompanied by  the effort  to unmask the cause of this problem.

 

 

Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D

Professor of Philosophy

UNIABUJA

 

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