Nigeria, Aug. 25 -- Once in a blue moon, something happens that throws you back to the distant past - almost like reliving the thrills of writing a cover story for DRUM several decades ago.

A man, Emeka, who had died in Nigeria in 1999 showed up in the Gambia ten years later, married a lady named Amina and fathered four children before disappearing forever. Four years ago, an unknown visitor told Amina and her father that they had all along been dealing with a ghost from the spirit world.

When the story became public, petrified neighbours and strangers teamed up to banish Amina and her children from their midst. Virtually destitute and horror-stricken from stigmatisation and ostracism, his family fled to a neighbouring country and his w...