My Stolen Childhood: Understanding the trokosi system – BBC Africa Eye documentary
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 “trokosi”. Girls are forced to live and work with priests in religious shrines, for the rest of their lives, to “pay” for the sins of family members. Although the practice has officially been banned in Ghana, it’s still happening there and in…
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What a heartless disgusting practice
Stupid father and a weak man
These men and this traditional is barbarism and egotistical for weak men in society. The men they’ve to be slaves themselves as they are the ones who did wrong not innocent little girls and old women.
The stupid family meant it for evil, but the Lord Jesus Christ turned it into good. Thank God, for the adopted father.
What an absolutely beautiful story ❤😢
Her uncle is very wicked man ,how can someone commit adultery or sin and u the innocent one are going to pay for with dis practice must be abolished 💔🙏
Africans are very superstitious. I wonder where all the superstitions started and when will they see the errors of their ways?
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
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.
Only girl?
I feel for Christina I'm glad they are united it's soooo painful how she even tried to confront Christina
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
Religious beliefs like this are ridiculous. I hope that one day very soon no one in this world will believe in a God that requires human beings to suffer.
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.
I don't know whether or not I believe that her dad didn't know where she had gone
You know, when people said Abrahamic religions are backwards…then you see other religions, you understand why Abrahamic religions get popular. It's not as backward as others.
Being an African myself I am grossly shocked ,confused, about things that are happening in our society in this day
Sometimes ignorance is bliss and just because you share blood doesnt mean you are family.
10 minutes in on this documentary and from the bottom of my heart this practice is stupid.
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.
Why on earth children needs to pay for the family members crimes 🙄🙄🙄🙄 so absurd!! Child labour!!! They were only there mostly to satisfied the sexual needs of the corrupted perverted priests in the shrine
Modern day slavery that's all this is modern day slavery so disgusting
'when you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer….., superstition aint the way..,' Stevie Wonder
'visiting the iniquities of the fathers a upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me…..' Deuteronomy 5:9
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.
Really a second chance to have life. Thanks for those who have taken great initiative. God bless. 👍
Ignorance runs long & strong with these people.
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"
It's mainly in Volta region, not much left. Thanks to construction of roads and rail in last 10 years. Chinese built those to facilitate mines.
Why is it only girls and women are given out for tokoshe?
In every religious system, it is girls and wome who are more abused.
Thank you for this video greetings from the Nederlands.
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.
Heartbreaking. Why is it? Throughout history and even today it is women that have to pay the price for the actions that men take. Let them pay for their own sins
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.
This is so sad , and NEEDS to stop being done to these poor girls and women !
Sometimes, a lot of innocent lives are saved if we make fun of backward belief systems.
This is pure slavery in culture form🥺
I am still unclear as to why her uncle took her and then put her in the shrine? Can we infer that her uncle was abusive?
The priests are sleeping with the girls that's virgin. The priests are christian and should help the girls instead of being the pimp.
I was born in Ghana 🇬🇭 and I will be 30 this year, but I swear I've never heard of this practice,,this vid has thought me alot
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