There’s a painful scene in Netflix’s new drama, Can You See Us?, when the protagonist, Joseph, is attacked by men who pin him down and hack at his leg with a knife.
John Chiti, the man on whom Joseph is based, remembers this incident well. It happened when he was 15 and walking home with a friend after playing football in the Copperbelt province in Zambia. The men who attacked him had been tracking his movements for some time.