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World Service,09 Jan 1998,27 mins

Trokosi Women of Ghana

African Perspective

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In the practice of trokosi young girls are given, against their will, to serve - physically and sexually - at a religious shrine and continue to be held to atone for the offences committed by relatives. Before it was made illegal in 1998, there were thought to be up to 30,000 trokosi in the fetish religion in Ghana.

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