Chained between prayer and care


Members of a Christian group praying at a station at the Achimota Forest Prayer Enclave in Accra. — AFP

ON a recent Friday morning, worshippers made their way in droves into the Achimota Forest, a stretch of green in Ghana’s capital that doubles as an unlikely sanctuary for the desperate.

From the outside, the park and adjacent Accra Zoo appeared calm as branches swayed gently with the dry breeze.

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