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  • Mental Health: Opening Dialogue in the African Community

    Mental Health: Opening Dialogue in the African Community

    Bantu refugees have endured continuous marginalization in Somalia since their arrival as slaves from Bantu-speaking tribes in the 19th century. Even though they lived in Somalia for almost two centuries, the Bantu were still viewed and treated as foreigners and outsiders.   The persecution of the Somali Bantu during the Civil War in the 1990’s…