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Female Ritual Servitude: The Trokosis in Ghana

Female Ritual Servitude: The Trokosis in Ghana

Mensah, Wisdom Yaw
Godwyll, Francis Ebenezer

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1438949499
ISBN13: 9781438949499
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jan 5 2010
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The first mention of the word Trokosi can be traced to the work of A. B. Ellis in 1890 writing on the topic of Priesthood in The Ewe Speaking People of the Gold Coast. As far back as the early 1900s a protest letter was submitted by a native of the Gold Coast to the Colonial Secretary of Native Affairs calling for an end to a practice that marginalized, dehumanized and treated young virgins as slaves consecrated to the gods. Unfortunately in 2009 the fight still continues. The authors bring light to an issue greatly in need of critical scrutiny. This book poignantly elucidates firsthand accounts of the voices of the Trokosi victims, the geographical spread of the practice, interrogates the social context in which the practice thrives, traces the travailing journeys of the victims, discusses the liberation efforts and rehabilitation programs, examines the role of civil society in confronting the system and closes with the tensions within the discourses that support or reject the Trokosi system.

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