Now that it is fashionable for aggrieved political factions to dismiss criticism as a “witch hunt”, it’s worth remembering what makes actual witch hunts so pernicious. It’s not that the women thus accused are in fact innocent – it’s that they couldn’t possibly be guilty. In northern Ghana, witch hunts are more than a political metaphor. Even now, vulnerable women are accused of the dark arts because they have a mental illness, a physical.
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Three of the women who sing about their plight and their hopes on the album
I ve Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be. Their names are withheld to protect their physical safety because they have been accused of witchcraft. Marilena Umuhoza Delli
On a brief track called I Stand Accused, a woman in a remote part of Ghana intones and repeats the title phrase with the intensity of a global town crier. She s accompanied only by the sound of pieces of firewood being struck together. But in her solitude she s speaking for a community called Witch Camp that has recorded the new album,
On a brief track called "I Stand Accused," a woman in a remote part of Ghana intones and repeats the title phrase with the intensity of a global
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