The State We're In, 9 July 2011. We talk to an ex-FBI agent and a journalist from Ghana who've gone undercover to expose wrongdoings. And a South African journalist believes that her ancestors may be calling her to become a sangoma, or traditional healer. But it's a calling she’d rather not heed.

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The last undercover
Bob Hamer (pictured above) has been a paedophile, a drug dealer, a Mafia member and a gun-runner - all roles he played over the 26 years he was with the FBI. He tells host Jonathan Groubert how he kept himself together while being other people (photos at bottom of page).
Links - Bob Hamer's website
Bob Hamer - An Inside Look at Operation Smoking Dragon

Video - Infiltrating NAMBLA:

Undercover, anonymous and effective
Anas Aremeyaw is an investigative journalist in Accra, Ghana. Very few people know what he looks like. That’s because his job demands secrecy: he gets inside places he’s not supposed to be - like prisons and mental hospitals - to expose corrupt and cruel practices. He’s good at it. That’s why some powerful people want him dead (photo at bottom of page).

Link - watch an episode of Enemies of the Nation

Unwanted calling
There has always been a traditional healer, or sangoma, in Lesego Mangwanyane's family. And she believes - in fact fears - that her ancestors' voices may be calling her to become one. But she’s resisting their call.
Read more about Lesego's story in RNW's Global Perspective series - in association with SAFM in South Africa.

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