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COGNITIVE REINTEGRATION: A NARRATED AFRICAN SOCIAL HEALTH EXPLORATION THROUGH DESIGN

I cannot speak about healing for African people in an African context without speaking of connection. I cannot speak about the Africa spirit without the community. I cannot speak about community without speaking about the cultivated traditions that bind them. I cannot speak about the cultivated traditions without understanding what they aim to achieve. I cannot speak about the aims without speaking about how they serve the people whom they target. One cannot speak about the way they serve without witnessing them being performed in the spaces Africans have created and claimed for that serving.


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