Generations of Africans have inherited more than land and language, they’ve inherited trauma. The anxiety of displacement, the depression of loss, the internalized shame of racial oppression -these legacies live on, often unnoticed, in our behaviors, relationships, and even our silences.

In societies where therapy is still taboo and pain is often spiritualized, many continue to suffer in invisible ways. Today, we ask: What happens when trauma isn’t healed, but passed down? How do we reckon with the emotional debris of a violent past? And what does collective healing look like for a continent still grappling with its past?

We spoke to Clinical Psychologist, Lewis Karanja.