Ghana's masked presidential candidate adds sense of mystery to election

Little is known about the masked figure or their campaign, but there has been plenty of online speculation

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'It will be difficult to vote for someone whose face I cannot see,' said one voter
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Billboards featuring a mysterious masked figure have appeared in cities across Ghana in the run-up to the country's 2024 presidential election.

The "enigmatic" posters feature an "unidentified figure cloaked in a mask" alongside the slogan #TheNewForce, said GhanaWeb. They started to appear last month in Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Ho and Tamale, according to Semafor.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.