“The African family physician”: development of family medicine in Africa in the twenty-first century

This chapter describes the specific health status of Africa and the different problems that the continent is facing in health and health care and provides an overview of the development of family medicine in Africa, with the support of Flemish universities, from South Africa to East Africa and the rest of the continent. Compared with the rest of the world, health care in Africa is characterized by a huge discrepancy between the high burden of disease and the scarcity of health care workers to carry this burden, particularly doctors. In role-play, play partners co-construct the play, they use language and actions as well as negotiating roles and themes. Children’s role-play with digital objects demonstrates the ways in which they develop imaginative ideas and new relationships, sometimes with robots or other digital toys.