30 second Trailer for 'What I Used to Know - The Road to Ghana's Witches' Camps'

A Film by Zoe Young
with Saskia Evans and Andrea Cuadrado.


I don't want to be here.
Somebody decided I was a witch.
Now my heart is dead -- what I used to know, I don't know any more...
Yadu Masam, Ngani 'Witches' Camp', Ghana, 2010

What becomes of women accused of witchcraft?

Who can stop the burning?
How to educate the ignorant, heal the fearful
and end the isolation and abuse of some of our most vulnerable people?

In many parts of the world, magic and spirits are everywhere. One consequence is that physical illness, death and misfortune may be blamed on supernatural intervention. A feeling that events are spinning out of control can fuel violence towards scapegoats. Victims are often 'outsiders' of some kind, be they old, mentally ill, disabled, infertile or even just outspoken women.

But given culturally appropriate education and concerted government action, might such abuses be stopped?

In this half hour film, West African women's rights activist Zenabu Sakibu hears the heart-breaking stories of accused women in Ghana's Northern Region,
and challenges her nation to step up....

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Ghana
• magic
• witch
• human rights
• women
• violence
• witch hunt
• Africa
• abuse
• protection
• refuge
• elder
• third age
• animism
• religion