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Thousands of women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries old practice called 鈥渢rokosi鈥�. Girls are forced to live and work with priests in religious shrines, for the rest of their lives, to 鈥減ay鈥� for the sins of family members. Although the practice has officially been banned in Ghana, it鈥檚 still happening there and in other parts of West Africa but on a smaller scale.

Twenty years after she was freed from this practice, Brigitte Sossou Perenyi goes on a journey to understand what trokosi really is and why her family gave her away.

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