She and her son soon after travelled north of the country to the Copper belt where they stayed with close relatives and other extended family members as he underwent treatment. Her son had to drink this porridge 3 times a day for 3 months. The mother was to use the herb from the soaked roots to boil a thin maize or corn meal porridge. The traditional healer prescribed several types of treatment for the depression which included a pile of roots. This was an urgent matter and there was no time to waste. As soon as they landed at the Lusaka Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, they booked a taxi and headed straight to the traditional healers’ house. The wife boarded the plane for Zambia with their son. I gave them the name and cell phone number of the reputable traditional healer who lives in the Chawama compound South of Zambia’s Capital City of Lusaka. I advised my friend that they should immediately fly back home to Zambia in Africa. His depression was so severe that he would be in bed all day and not come out of his bedroom. Once out of the hospital, the son was back home and deeply depressed. During a race-related fracas at the party, his son was severely beaten and had to be taken to hospital. His 19 year old son was attending college and went to a party near campus with a group of friends. In 2008 I got a frantic call from a close Zambian friend who lives in Chicago with his wife and two children in a typical middle class neighborhood. Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions, New York: Bloomsbury, 2018, 321 pp.
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