BY ADVENT SHOKO
โThey called it treatment. I call it survival.โ These are the haunting words ofย Angeline Moyoย (nรฉe Ndebele), a Zimbabwean-born nurse whose life took a devastating turn while working in the United Kingdomโs National Health Service (NHS).
In powerful audios recorded in Ndebele and English, Angeline narrates how she was forcibly injected with Clopixol during a mental health crisis โ an ordeal that left her feeling silenced, misdiagnosed, and trapped inside the very health system she once served with compassion.
Her newly published memoir,ย After the Injection, exposes what she describes as racism, injustice, and medical coercion hidden within mental health care in the UK. The book goes beyond personal suffering โ it is a rallying cry for justice, a story of survival and resistance that speaks to anyone who has ever felt voiceless under institutional power.
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ฃ๐น๐๐บ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐ฆ
Born in Plumtree District, Matabeleland, Angeline grew up the fifth of nine children. She trained as a nurse at Brunapeg School of Nursing, graduating in 1991 before serving in rural clinics and hospitals in Zimbabwe. In 2001, she relocated to the UK, where she joined the NHS and later qualified as a specialist nurse practitioner.
But instead of a smooth journey in healthcare, Angeline encountered workplace racism, insubordination from colleagues, and later the devastating experience that became the heart of her memoir.
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Her story is both deeply personal and painfully universal โ from psychiatric wards to legal battles, from forced medication to the fight for dignity. Through pain, Angeline says she found purpose, and through her voice, others may yet find hope.
Her journey, detailed in her two memoirs includingย After the Injection, is not only a testament to resilience but also a bold demand for justice in global health care systems. –Extracted from Pindula
