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World Service,1 min

Fingernail and hair soup: A widow’s penance?

The Food Chain

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Fati Abdulai is the director of the The Widows and Orphans Movement, based in Northern Ghana. She tells Emily Thomas about some of the widowhood rituals that persist, despite legislation against these practices. Picture: A hand, Credit: Getty Images)

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