Ghana’s anti-witchcraft-camp debate

Record summary

Ghana’s so-called witch camps, including Gambaga, Kukuo, and Nabuli, housed women accused of witchcraft, often after illness, bereavement, or community conflict. Government and civil-society campaigns have sought closure or reintegration, while residents and traditional authorities have raised concerns about safety, livelihood, and social acceptance. The camps are identifiable through human-rights reports, ethnographies, documentaries, and Ghanaian policy discussions. They matter for comparing accusation, ritual authority, gendered vulnerability, and the uneasy boundary between refuge and coercive confinement.