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Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist

Why Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas disguised himself as a psychiatric patient, as a woman seeking to adopt and as a rock in a barren landscape.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas is very well known in Africa, even though almost no one knows what he looks like. He's a trained lawyer-turned-investigative reporter from Ghana, and a frequent presenter of the 大象传媒's Africa Eye. In his nearly 20 years working undercover he's exposed sex trafficking rings, corrupt judges, and top football officials fixing matches. He goes deep undercover during investigations, and he's disguised himself as a psychiatric patient, a janitor in a brothel聽and even as a rock in a barren landscape. His work has led to numerous convictions, but his methods are sometimes dangerous and controversial. His latest investigation for 大象传媒 Africa Eye is called Corona Quacks, exposing the sale in Ghana of fake 'cures' for coronavirus.

Many American football players train hard because they love the game and want to prove themselves at the the highest level, but Ryan O'Callaghan was playing for a different reason. He was gay and desperate to hide his sexuality from everybody, and he knew the masculine world of football was the perfect place to hide. His career inadvertently took off and he joined a top tier team, the New England Patriots, but his secret was becoming unbearable. An unlikely intervention from a kind stranger turned things around. Ryan's book is called My Life on the Line.

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Picture: Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
Credit: 大象传媒 Africa Eye.

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