HOW DEPRESSION SAVED MY LIFE

Media entrepreneur and host of #WithChude, Chude Jideonwo traces ten years of his life — from the dizzying professional highs of running major presidential campaigns to the depths of depression, and finally to building one of Africa's most influential storytelling platforms.It tells the story of how after the high of the Buhari campaign in 2015 and the Akufo-Addo campaign in 2016, he was diagnosed with clinical depression and then Tourette's syndrome, quit his job as CEO of RED, decided to relocate to America, changed his mind, returned to Nigeria, and three years after, emerged from the wilderness with #WithChude.Structured across ten chapters and over three hundred pages spanning 2014 to 2024, the memoir merges politics and personal healing, faith and psychology, public triumph and private despair. It begins with his time leading RED and culminates in the founding of #WithChude — the talk show and movement that has become synonymous with vulnerability and emotional truth in African storytelling.