Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been induced by conflict in the region. He is now chained to a tree in Leer Town, supposedly to prevent him harming others.
Sin...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been induced by conflict in the region. He is now chained to a tree in Leer Town, supposedly to prevent him harming others.
Sin...
Nyagoag (25), who suffers from severe mental illness.
Since the end of...
Nyagoag (25), who suffers from severe mental illness.
Since the end of 2013, conflict has cost almost 400,000 lives and left six million people, of a population of 11 million, desperately hungry. Onl...
Nyagoag (25), who suffers from severe mental illness.
Since the end of...
Nyagoag (25), who suffers from severe mental illness.
Since the end of 2013, conflict has cost almost 400,000 lives and left six million people, of a population of 11 million, desperately hungry. Onl...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been induced by conflict in the region. He is now chained to a tree in Leer Town, supposedly to prevent him harming others.
Sin...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been induced by conflict in the region. He is now chained to a tree in Leer Town, supposedly to prevent him harming others.
Sin...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been...
Gatleah (38), who suffers from a severe mental illness, thought to have been induced by conflict in the region. He is now chained to a tree in Leer Town, supposedly to prevent him harming others.
Sin...
Nyagoag (25), who suffers from a severe mental health condition.
Since the...
Nyagoag (25), who suffers from a severe mental health condition.
Since the end of 2013, conflict has cost almost 400,000 lives and left six million people, of a population of 11 million, desperately...
Chuol Tot, who is married to a woman who, like Tot, is also suffering from...
Chuol Tot, who is married to a woman who, like Tot, is also suffering from mental health issues.
Since the end of 2013, conflict has cost almost 400,000 lives and left six million people, of a popula...
A mentally ill man, abandoned by his family, is dragged by a member of staff...
A mentally ill man, abandoned by his family, is dragged by a member of staff back onto an excrement and urine soaked mattress at the Military hospital in Renk. Even the most basic needs are not met, h...
A man whose ankles are shackled with an iron bar at the Mamman Mai Mari...
A man whose ankles are shackled with an iron bar at the Mamman Mai Mari Qur'anic Islamic and Rehabilitation Centre where men and boys, some as young as 10 years old, are shackled for perceived or actu...
A man whose ankles are shackled with iron bars copies out Islamic texts at the...
A man whose ankles are shackled with iron bars copies out Islamic texts at the Mamman Mai Mari Qur'anic Islamic and Rehabilitation Centre where men and boys, some as young as 10 years old, are shackle...
A patient whose has had their ankles shackled, causing an open sore to...
A patient whose has had their ankles shackled, causing an open sore to develop, at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients...
A patient at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which...
A patient at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients with injectable drugs that they receive from a pharmacy. They adminis...
Boys locked together to iron bars in the Mamman Mai Mari Qur'anic Islamic and...
Boys locked together to iron bars in the Mamman Mai Mari Qur'anic Islamic and Rehabilitation Centre where men and boys, some as young as 10 years old, are shackled for perceived or actual drug addicti...
Patients, one tied to a pole with a fabric band, at the Dawanau Psychiatric...
Patients, one tied to a pole with a fabric band, at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental health facilities where admission is free. It is the only Psychiatric Hospital hos...
A patient lies on a foam mattress at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of...
A patient lies on a foam mattress at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental health facilities where admission is free. It is the only Psychiatric Hospital hospital in Kano S...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled sits in a cell at the Emmanuel...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled sits in a cell at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients with injectable drug...
A patient whose ankles are shackled with rope and crepe bandages lies on a mat...
A patient whose ankles are shackled with rope and crepe bandages lies on a mat in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi....
A patient whose ankles are shackled with rope and crepe bandages lies on a mat...
A patient whose ankles are shackled with rope and crepe bandages lies on a mat in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi....
Taofeek Buraimo, who says he doesn't know how old he is at Oke Oloro where he...
Taofeek Buraimo, who says he doesn't know how old he is at Oke Oloro where he has been since January 2019. He is there being treated for a mental health issue. While being treated there he has had a c...
Oluwasegun Ariyo (29) sits with his ankles shackled at Oke Oloro where he has...
Oluwasegun Ariyo (29) sits with his ankles shackled at Oke Oloro where he has been for five months receiving prayer and herbal medicine in an attempt to heal his mental illness. While there he has bee...
The use of chains to restrain people with mental health issues is common at...
The use of chains to restrain people with mental health issues is common at Oke Oloro. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the clinic, uses herbal medicine and prayer to treat people livin...
Joshua Aliyu (25) with his mother Laraba Alhaji. Joshua says his illness...
Joshua Aliyu (25) with his mother Laraba Alhaji. Joshua says his illness started six years ago with difficulty moving his hand. Stiffness and pain spread through his body. He also started to struggle...
Patients at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental...
Patients at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental health facilities where admission is free. It is the only Psychiatric Hospital hospital in Kano State, which has a populat...
Patients at a religious service at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for...
Patients at a religious service at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients with injectable drugs that they receive from a...
Patients whose ankles are shackled sit in a small dark cell eating food from...
Patients whose ankles are shackled sit in a small dark cell eating food from plastic containers at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. The...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled sits in a small dark cell eating...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled sits in a small dark cell eating food from a plastic container at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola A...
A patient whose ankles have been shackled at Oke Oloro where the shackling of...
A patient whose ankles have been shackled at Oke Oloro where the shackling of mental health patient's ankles is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the clinic, uses herbal...
A patient whose ankles have been shackled lies on the ground at Oke Oloro...
A patient whose ankles have been shackled lies on the ground at Oke Oloro where the shackling of mental health patient's ankles is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the...
Maria Sabo (30) and her mother Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue.
Maria Sabo (30) and her mother Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Maria has taken care of her mother for the five months they've been at the Dr Amina Aliyu Shekwonya Herbal Centre. Maria prepa...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty moving his hand. Stiffness and pain spread through his body. He also started to struggle to recognise people around him unt...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty moving his hand. Stiffness and pain spread through his body. He also started to struggle to recognise people around him unt...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty moving his hand. Stiffness and pain spread through his body. He also started to struggle to recognise people around him unt...
Patients at Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health patient's ankles is...
Patients at Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health patient's ankles is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the clinic, uses herbal medicine and prayer to treat people...
A patient lies on a bench at Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health...
A patient lies on a bench at Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health patient's ankles is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the clinic, uses herbal medicine and praye...
Patients at Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health patient's ankles is...
Patients at Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health patient's ankles is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the clinic, uses herbal medicine and prayer to treat people...
A boy stands outside Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health patient's...
A boy stands outside Oke Oloro where the shackling mental health patient's ankles is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the clinic, uses herbal medicine and prayer to tre...
Chains shackling the ankles of patients being treated for mental health issues...
Chains shackling the ankles of patients being treated for mental health issues at Oke Oloro where the use of chains to restrain people is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who ru...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty...
Joshua Aliyu (25) who says his illness started six years ago with difficulty moving his hand. Stiffness and pain spread through his body. He also started to struggle to recognise people around him unt...
Chains shackling the ankles of patients being treated for mental health issues...
Chains shackling the ankles of patients being treated for mental health issues at Oke Oloro where the use of chains to restrain people is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who ru...
Clients with mental health issues at at Oke Oloro. Traditional healer Sheu...
Clients with mental health issues at at Oke Oloro. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who runs the clinic, uses herbal medicine and prayer to treat people living with mental health issues.
Chains shackling the ankles of a patient being treated for mental health...
Chains shackling the ankles of a patient being treated for mental health issues at Oke Oloro where the use of chains to restrain people is common practice. Traditional healer Sheu Saliu Ibrahim, who r...
Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Maria has taken care of her mother...
Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Maria has taken care of her mother for the five months they've been at the Dr Amina Aliyu Shekwonya Herbal Centre. Maria prepares herbs as instructed by the...
Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Her daughter Maria has taken care...
Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Her daughter Maria has taken care of her for the five months they've been at the Dr Amina Aliyu Shekwonya Herbal Centre. Maria prepares herbs as instructed b...
Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Her daughter Maria has taken care...
Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Her daughter Maria has taken care of her for the five months they've been at the Dr Amina Aliyu Shekwonya Herbal Centre. Maria prepares herbs as instructed b...
Maria Sabo (30) and her mother Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue.
Maria Sabo (30) and her mother Laraba Sabo who has a mental health issue. Maria has taken care of her mother for the five months they've been at the Dr Amina Aliyu Shekwonya Herbal Centre. Maria prepa...
Taofeek Buraimo, who says he doesn't know how old he is at Oke Oloro where he...
Taofeek Buraimo, who says he doesn't know how old he is at Oke Oloro where he has been since January 2019. He is there being treated for a mental health issue. While being treated there he has had a c...
Joshua Aliyu (25) with his mother Laraba Alhaji. Joshua says his illness...
Joshua Aliyu (25) with his mother Laraba Alhaji. Joshua says his illness started six years ago with difficulty moving his hand. Stiffness and pain spread through his body. He also started to struggle...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and locked up for their perceived or actual drug addictions...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and locked up for their perceived or actual drug addictions...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and locked up for their perceived or actual drug addictions...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and locked up for their perceived or actual drug addictions...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
Ramadan (25) has been held for two months in a holding cell for men and boys,...
Ramadan (25) has been held for two months in a holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and locked up f...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and locked up for their perceived or actual drug addictions...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
36 year old Ma'aji has been held for four months in a holding cell for men and...
36 year old Ma'aji has been held for four months in a holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and lock...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an...
A holding cell for men and boys, some as young as 12, at Sabuwar Gandu, an Islamic rehabilitation centre in Kano. Men and boys are shackled and locked up for their perceived or actual drug addictions...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people...
Patients at the Edwuma Wo Woho Herbal Centre, which houses about 30 people many with mental health conditions. At least half are shackled with chains. The centre is run by herbal doctor Irene Dadzie (...
Patients whose ankles are shackled sit in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel...
Patients whose ankles are shackled sit in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients with injectable dru...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled sits in a small dark cell at the...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled sits in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients with inje...
Patients whose ankles are shackled sit in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel...
Patients whose ankles are shackled sit in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients with injectable dru...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled in a small dark cell at the...
A patient whose has had his ankles shackled in a small dark cell at the Emmanuel Rehabilitation Centre for Mentally Ill People which is run by Miss Mojisola Adeniyi. They treat patients with injectabl...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for by her mother at Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pentecostal Church in the Northern Region of Ghana where she has been chained fo...
John Yimbilbe is thought to have schizophrenia and depression. He is cared for...
John Yimbilbe is thought to have schizophrenia and depression. He is cared for by his wife Elizabeth Kwamwe at Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pentecostal Church in the Northern Region of Ghana where he has...
John Yimbilbe is thought to have schizophrenia and depression. He is cared for...
John Yimbilbe is thought to have schizophrenia and depression. He is cared for by his wife Elizabeth Kwamwe at Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pentecostal Church in the Northern Region of Ghana where he has...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for by her mother at Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pentecostal Church in the Northern Region of Ghana where she has been chained fo...
Sara (family name not disclosed) has three children. Her youngest is two years...
Sara (family name not disclosed) has three children. Her youngest is two years old. She says that she became ill after the birth of each of her children. She was taken to Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pen...
Sara (family name not disclosed) has three children. Her youngest is two years...
Sara (family name not disclosed) has three children. Her youngest is two years old. She says that she became ill after the birth of each of her children. She was taken to Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pen...
Sara (family name not disclosed) has three children. Her youngest is two years...
Sara (family name not disclosed) has three children. Her youngest is two years old. She says that she became ill after the birth of each of her children. She was taken to Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pen...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for by her mother at Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pentecostal Church in the Northern Region of Ghana where she has been chained fo...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for...
Umama Belakoba has schizophrenia and does not know her age. She is cared for by her mother at Nyinbunya Prayer Camp and Pentecostal Church in the Northern Region of Ghana where she has been chained fo...
Other than to shout to his mother for food, Baba Agunua doesn't speak. His...
Other than to shout to his mother for food, Baba Agunua doesn't speak. His mother doesn't know his age, she says he's between 20 and 30. He lives with a serious mental health condition and has been ch...
Other than to shout to his mother for food, Baba Agunua doesn't speak. His...
Other than to shout to his mother for food, Baba Agunua doesn't speak. His mother doesn't know his age, she says he's between 20 and 30. He lives with a serious mental health condition and has been ch...
Other than to shout to his mother for food, Baba Agunua doesn't speak. His...
Other than to shout to his mother for food, Baba Agunua doesn't speak. His mother doesn't know his age, she says he's between 20 and 30. He lives with a serious mental health condition and has been ch...
Patients at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental...
Patients at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental health facilities where admission is free. It is the only Psychiatric Hospital hospital in Kano State, which has a populat...
Patients at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental...
Patients at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental health facilities where admission is free. It is the only Psychiatric Hospital hospital in Kano State, which has a populat...
A patient lies on a foam mattress at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of...
A patient lies on a foam mattress at the Dawanau Psychiatric Hospital, one of the few state-run mental health facilities where admission is free. It is the only Psychiatric Hospital hospital in Kano S...
A EUCAP instructor, teaching on an European Union funded training course,...
A EUCAP instructor, teaching on an European Union funded training course, shows police officers types of restraint holds they might have to use in the arrest of smugglers. The European Union, through...
Francis Pii Kugbila teaching a first grade class at Dagliga Primary school...
Francis Pii Kugbila teaching a first grade class at Dagliga Primary school near Bolgatanga. When Kugbila became mentally unwell in 2009, his brothers took him to a traditional healer who forced his le...
Dagliga Primary school near Bolgatanga, where Francis Pii Kugbila teaches a...
Dagliga Primary school near Bolgatanga, where Francis Pii Kugbila teaches a grade one class. When Kugbila became mentally unwell in 2009, his brothers took him to a traditional healer who forced his l...
Francis Pii Kugbila teaching a first grade class at Dagliga Primary school...
Francis Pii Kugbila teaching a first grade class at Dagliga Primary school near Bolgatanga. When Kugbila became mentally unwell in 2009, his brothers took him to a traditional healer who forced his le...