Children of tribulation: the need to heal and the means to heal war trauma
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Africa
- Vol. 60 (1) , 1-38
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1160425
Abstract
The Need for Healing: This article is about the unseen world of war—the unrecorded consequences for children of large-scale horror. There are two parts to it. The first is on the need for healing: it is an account of children's suffering during Zimbabwe's War of Liberation and their part in the fight for freedom. The second describes the means for healing: it examines how traditional healers (n'anga) provided opportunities through ritual for reconciliation and the soothing of individual trauma.Keywords
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