Anas Aremeyaw Anas went undercover to report on disturbing stories of crime and corruption in Ghana:
Certainly Anas’ immersive tactics can be extreme. While working on a story on the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Anas played the part of the patient, taking prescribed drugs that left him impotent for a week after he left the hospital. And in his most recent story, on Nsawam Prison in Ghana, Anas shows footage of queuing for a “proper” toilet — a manhole in the middle of the yard, around which four men are squatting, back to back. The footage, which he showed for the first time at TED2013, also contains a harrowing shot of a room within the prison piled high with dead bodies.
In the TED talk seen above, Anas speaks from behind a wire mask to conceal his identity. Below you can watch his short film, “Ghana’s Madhouse Story”:
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