Reviewed by David Denborough
David Denborough reviews Dixon Chibanda’s (2025) book, The Friendship Bench: How fourteen grandmothers inspired a mental health revolution. New World Library. 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-95583-102-4 (print); 978-1-95583-103-1 (ebook); 978-1-95583-117-8 (audio).
Key words: Friendship Bench; Dixon Chibanda; Zimbabwe; Africa; decolonizing; local knowledge; peer; book; review; narrative therapy; narrative practice
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Denborough, D. (2025). Opening our minds: An alternative way of responding to personal and collective despair, a review of The Friendship Bench: How fourteen grandmothers inspired a mental health revolution by Dixon Chibanda. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (2), 87–90. https://doi.org/10.4320/IWFY2523