Not Everyone Is Celebrating on Independence Day in Ghana

Expand More than 60 men with real or perceived psychosocial disabilities are confined in one room, including some who are chained, at Mount Horeb Prayer Camp in Mamfi, Ghana.  © 2018 Human Rights Watch On my Twitter feed last week, I saw many images of Ghanaians celebrating Independence Day: people dressed in their finest, cheering and waving flags, marching bands playing, ordinary Ghanaians dancing in the streets. But I had trouble reconciling these images with those I’m more familiar with in Ghana: a dark room with dozens of men cramped together with little to no ventilation, their legs…

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