Ken Ofori-Atta and Ghana’s Loudest Trial Before Evidence

By the time the word extradition reached the mango tree, it had already lost its passport. It arrived breathless in the public square—dragged by radio phone-ins, flogged by WhatsApp voice notes, and dressed in borrowed legal robes from TokTok University. Everyone had an opinion. Everyone had a verdict. Only the evidence had not yet found its shoes.