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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. Anas is a trained lawyer-turned-investigative reporter in Ghana, and a frequent presenter of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Africa Eye. In his nearly 20 years working undercover, he's exposed judges taking bribes for a not guilty verdict; top football officials fixing matches; sex trafficking rings; organ harvesting. To do so, he had to disguise himself as a psychiatric patient, as a janitor in a brothel and 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa Eye is called Corona Quacks, exposing the sale in Ghana of fake 'cures' for coronavirus.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen.
Producers: Andrea Kennedy and Harry Graham.

Picture: Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa Eye.

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