Meet Investigative Journalist Who Can Pose As Anything

Ghanaian investigative reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, can go to any length to get his job done. 

Anas in different costumes

Infact, no one knows the true identity of the internationally-acclaimed journalist. “I’m sorry,” he apologized to an audience during a 2013 TED talk, speaking through a mask. “I cannot show you my face. If I do, the bad guys will come at me, they are numerous.” 
The devoted reporter whose mission is to expose all the bad eggs in his society, in high and low places, has been inventive with his various appearances. Each appearance is said to always tend to portray the best way to get the job done. Disguising as a peanut hawker, a rock, a cop, a parent with a fake baby, a woman and many more, are some of the ways Anas Aremeyaw Anas gets his investigative job done.

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In 2014, Anas heard about an Interpol about missing Vietnamese women who was sold into sex trafficking. He decide to disguise as John Sullivan, an American oil rig worker. He also went there with an Arab colleague who was also masked as a Jordanian oil magnate. “Sullivan” got jobs from the women. However, when the women’s pimps offer them up, the police hiding nearby swooped in on them. They were all arrested including the Chinese nationals behind the prostitution.


Anas became more prominent in 2006, when he disguised as an assembly line worker in a cookie factory in Accra. There were rumours that the company had lots of filthy stuff all around the factory. His hidden cameras caught every detail of the stomach-turning assignment. As a story in Africa’s ZAM magazine put it, Anas filmed “rats roaming freely in and around the food.” He also got shots of the cookie company using flour that was infested with maggots and termites. Most important, he got results: The factory was shut down.
Also, a community in Ghana believed  that disabled children are of the evil spirits. This makes the families of these deformed children take the children to men herbalist who help them prepare poison for the children, after which they are forced to eat it and they die afterwards. Anas decided to hire one of these herbalists to kill his ‘child’. The child is originally one of the children of Anas’s colleague.  The 18-month-old boy was examined by the herbalist and at the last minute, Anas swapped the human baby out for a dummy. The simulacra was made by a London-based movie props company. It was so lifelike, the concoction man didn’t realize he was being handed a fleshy slab of silicone. The herbalist was however arrested afterwards.
All these and more are some of the escapades of the passionate investigate reporter who wants the world around him to be sane. See some of his disguise photos below:

In 2010, Anas posed as a rock near a border post at the Ghana-Côte d’Ivoire crossing to spy on trucks from the roadside. As it turned out, the trucks were smuggling cocoa beans across the border. Anas’s report helped the police build a rock-solid case.

Anas as a policeman

Anas as a Sheikh

Anas’ fake baby prop

Anas as a woman

Anas as a homeless man

Anas was born 1978 and he went to the University of Ghana.
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