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Article: SLAVERY STILL PRACTICED BY GHANAIAN RELIGION.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 20, 1997
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Slavery has long been a part of Ghanaian culture and still exists today in remote parts of the country, widely shrugged off as just an unusual religious prerogative.
``Trokosi'' - a word in the Ewe language meaning ``wife of the gods'' - is practiced at dozens of isolated animist shrines in the southeastern Volta region.
Some families believe they are still responsible for the misdeeds of their ancestors, and to appease the war gods they must sacrifice a vestal virgin from every new generation.
Daughters as young as 10 are handed over to temples, where they are servants until they begin to menstruate and then typically become the exclusive ...