Please, for the purposes of smooth narration, allow me to lump you in with all the others: short and scruffy street brats, dirt-faced and hungry, smeared cherubs wandering around with your palms out. I know you’re all different: sex and gender; histories, national and personal; favourite colours; rows of teeth. But you’re also one seriously [...]

The hundreds of women and few men who populate the camps sprinkled throughout Ghana’s Northern region have been branded witches by their communities and chased out, sometimes beaten viciously. The finger-pointing often starts in their own home. Most of them do not speak English but only local dialects, and come from the most impoverished, forgotten [...]