Amid alarming rates of the illness, many living with it are seen as cursed. Now these myths are being challenged
Courage Vidzengsi had her first epileptic seizure when she was eight. Jerking uncontrollably, she bit her tongue and fell to the ground at the children’s recreation centre. As her seizures became more frequent, her family took her from their home in the city of Bamenda back to her family’s village in Cameroon’s Northwest Region.
There they saw a traditional healer, known as a “Gambé man”, who would “cleanse” the young girl.
