Banished 'Witches' Sing Of Their Pain — And Their Dreams
In a new recording, women accused of witchcraft in Ghana — and forced to leave their homes — created songs that tell who they are, how they have suffered and what their hopes are.
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, I've Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be.
This singer is one of an estimated 1,000 women in northern Ghana who have fled their homes because of — and the fear that they will be physically attacked as a
