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The Effect of Psychiatric Education on Attitudes to Illness Among the Ganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. H. Orley
Affiliation:
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
J. P. Leff
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, S.E.5

Extract

The Ganda are the most numerous tribe in Uganda. They live around the capital, Kampala, along the north-west shore of Lake Victoria and up to 50 to 100 miles inland. They are a Bantu-speaking people, surrounded by other Bantu to the east, west and south, with Nilotic people to the north.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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