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 ...

Irene: The psychologist, Cristina, she understands me. She can help me. Grandpa, do you like to see me suffer? Tirso: Yes, my hobbies are fixing radios and sadism. Sit down. (She takes a chair and ...