Witch Camp (Ghana) Mini-documentary

Witch Camp (Ghana) - I’ve Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be, now available on LP via Six Degrees Records. Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winning producer and author Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Zomba Prison Project) in collaboration with his wife, Italian-Rwandan filmmaker, author, and photographer, Marilena Umuhoza Delli, whose idea it was to record the album inspired by her own upbringing.

Marilena says “My own mother is a disabled widow from Rwanda and is the same age as most of these women we met at the Witch Camps. We grew up poor, living in a factory. It is impossible for me to look at these women’s circumstance and not see my own moth-er and an inhumane fate that but for a matter of geography could as well have been hers. It is impossible to think that this practice continues in the 21st century.

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I’ve Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be collects extraordinary field recordings made at Ghana’s infamous “witch camps”; settlements where these women accused of witch-craft can find safety and community; these women persecuted as witches are often overwhelmed by mental health issues and physical illnesses, while others are shunned and ostracized as a ruse to steal their land after their husband’s passing.

Видео Witch Camp (Ghana) Mini-documentary канала Six Degrees Records