When Freedom of Speech Becomes Expensive
“Ghana’s constitution guarantees freedom of speech. The guarantee, it turns out, comes with an unwritten clause: it holds until someone in power decides it does not. An AI-generated image was enough to get someone arrested. A satirical jab at a judge became a matter for the state. A TikToker with a threat too far became the one case that actually qualified. Three incidents. Three different scales of offence. One consistent pattern: the line between satire and criminality in Ghana is not drawn by the law. It is drawn by whoever woke up offended. And the people drawing that line have been on both sides of the argument, depending entirely on which chair they were sitting in at the time.”
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