Africa Awake! British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a minister to tackle suicide last week. This got me thinking. This must be a big problem in the UK for her to be pushed to take this radical step. Indeed the Guardian (UK) reported that the suicide rate amongst young females was rising and had reached record numbers for girls aged between 15 and 19. One hundred and seventy-seven (177) cases for that age group were reported in the country for 2017. The whole country had 5821 cases. Of these 4382 were males though on the whole suicide amongst men is declining in the country. Life brings us challenges. One psychiatrist who has personally dealt with the issue of suicide Dr Scott Peck puts it succinctly: Life is difficult. He actually equates life to problems: ‘Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?’ He explains this in his seminal book, The Road Less Travelled. I began to reflect on my own experience of the UK when I first arrived in the country in 2002 and have lived there for 5 years in all…