What's the coolest innovation that has come over from Africa recently?

In Zimbabwe, they have a thing called friendship benches. It is intended to provide counseling to distressed people who don’t otherwise have access to mental health care.

They’ve started doing this recently in New York City:

The goal is to both provide access to distressed people but also to destigmatize the threats of mental health, which is particularly pervasive in the black community.

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