The 2013 Kintampo witchcraft accusation case

Record summary

Reports from Ghana’s Kintampo area describe women accused of witchcraft and subjected to community or customary sanctions, including movement to protective settlements. The episode is useful as a localized comparison to the better-known northern camps because it links accusation to family conflict, illness explanations, and informal authority rather than a single centralized institution. Researchers should identify the particular victim or settlement in the source consulted: secondary accounts sometimes merge several Ghanaian cases under the Kintampo label and repeat NGO descriptions without court documentation.