"Better Ghana [Agenda]"?

In 2006, Enoch Teye Mensah, member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, sued the cartoonist “Akosua” and the Ghanaian newspaper, the Daily Guide, for defamation. The basis of the lawsuit was one of Akosua’s works, titled Ningo Prampram. Overall, this cartoon represented a general popular perception in Ghana about Mensah’s suitability for political office, especially in view of his low academic qualifications. Perhaps incensed by this visual representation of this perception and to bolster the legitimacy of his case, Mensah based his lawsuit on the seeming semblance between his facial ethnic-identity marks and those of the whiskers of a human-faced sheep in the cartoon strip. He also claimed that the cartoon depicted him as stupid and as a sycophant unqualified for political office. This case was subsequently dismissed (later satirized by Akosua in Fig. 7.1) for failure to concretely prove defamation.