My Stolen Childhood: Understanding the trokosi system – BBC Africa Eye documentary

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My Stolen Childhood: Understanding the trokosi system – BBC Africa Eye documentary


Thousands of women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries old practice called ā€œtrokosiā€. Girls are forced to live and work with priests in religious shrines, for the rest of their lives, to ā€œpayā€ for the sins of family members. Although the practice has officially been banned in Ghana, itā€™s still happening there and in…

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  1. These men and this traditional is barbarism and egotistical for weak men in society. The men theyā€™ve to be slaves themselves as they are the ones who did wrong not innocent little girls and old women.

  2. You should have asked your uncle why he did that to you. Because I'm thinking yr uncle had children but he couldn't give one of them out but rather you. Baby girl you need justice cos even though is past but the pain can never go away

  3. What a crock of BS. The "father" didn't even have the balls to look at her when he was speaking. Then again, if you are going to do that to your own child, you don't have balls to begin with.

  4. I just wish i could hug you for doing this documentary. I love you and im really happy that a family saw a future in you and saved you. More proud that your dad let you go find your blood family

  5. I believe that her family is being untruthful. They very well knew exactly where she was going when she left. They just don't want to admit it to her. If she was going to live with her uncle, why would a stranger need to come and take her to him? Why wouldn't he come himself? Or one of her other family members take her to him? And if it was her uncle that came for her why wouldn't she recognize her own uncle? They KNEW EXACTLY where she was going. Their guilt won't even allow them to tell her the truth. It's sad! They abandoned her and never expected her to make it out and be doing well. They never thought that they would have to answer to her one day. It was probably her father that sacrificed her. That's why he told her to blame him.

  6. How many children are stolen through manipulation and coersion in each and every nation around the world not only just in Africa only for the cause called, 'good breeding' among man? 'It has been prophesied in the Book of Relevation that only 144,000 men will not go along with that kind of exploitation of women. Anyone who says that exploitation of women problem only happens in Africa is in a way racist.

  7. Why on earth children needs to pay for the family members crimes šŸ™„šŸ™„šŸ™„šŸ™„ so absurd!! Child labour!!! They were only there mostly to satisfied the sexual needs of the corrupted perverted priests in the shrine

  8. People are disgusting. Any culture that would support this kind of barbarism should be flogged to a pulp. And has nothing to do with color. People of all races are equally capable of inflicting misery on their neighbors and friends and loved ones.

  9. I just want to see that PRACTICE END made ILLEGAL because there is no reason for holding people for things they haven't done. Slavery in west africa is still prevalent boys as girls suffer in the hands of their " uncles and aunties"

  10. The author Bernice L. McFadden wrote a novel entitled "Praise Song for the Butterflies" (published in 2018) that is centered around this heinous trokosi system. The book is amazing and is a true eye-opener to these practices that still take place in current times. I highly recommend McFadden's novel if you're interested in learning more about this subject.

  11. The father wanted to keep it swept under the rug. Says he doesn't want to cause conflict! Why not? Your brother took your child to a shrine. I believe the father played a part in this, perhaps on his deathbed he will confess.