Probing the investigative reporter without a face
Very few people have ever seen his face: He travels incognito and in his undercover operations, wears very strange and bizarre disguises.
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His exact age is unknown but he is believed to be in his early or mid-forties. His gender is the subject of a joke among some Ghanaians who think he could be a female parading herself as a man!
Meet the Ghanaian journalist who is often the unwitting hero of his own stories. Even his name is as strange as his approach to investigative journalism.
An enigma
The BBC’s correspondent in Accra, Sammy Darko, sums up his profile this way: “Anas Aremeyaw Anas is something of an enigma, as he is never seen in public without a disguise.
His fans call him a modern-day folk hero or the ‘James Bond of journalism’, for his work in exposing alleged corruption and malpractice in Ghana and beyond.
“In his 15 years of undercover journalism, he has among other disguises, posed as a female investor in hi