accused of witchcraft, they live recluse in a camp

In a camp in northern Ghana are 113 women, referred to as witches by society. Some spouses have only to invoke an alleged practice of witchcraft by their wives, for them to be banished by society, and recluse in a veritable open-air prison. Sometimes accompanied by their children, they live in extreme precariousness, with no possibility of returning to normal life. “Someone stuck their head over the wall and said ‘a woman died and it’s your fault, you killed her. We are going to kill you’“, testifies Asia Fusheini, one of them. To avoid death, Asia came to live in the camp.

Mustapha Issah, a worker for an NGO, tries to help these women. He lived in this same camp, after his mother was accused of witchcraft. “My mother was accused of being a witch (…) I sympathize with all those who are accused of witchcraft”, he testifies. Mustapha crisscrosses the communities of the region, in order to change this mentality, which mainly targets women.