A Ghanaian researcher is calling for broader changes in how mental illness is represented in the media, arguing that legal reforms alone are insufficient to reduce stigma without corresponding changes in public narratives and social attitudes. Jonathan Okoe, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, makes the argument in a recent study titled “Constructing Madness: Media Narratives and Public Understandings of Mental Illness in Contemporary Ghana, c. 2000–2025,” co-authored with Yahaya Halidu and published in the Academic Journal of History and Idea.