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Author : Mark Wisdom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Trokosi System written by Mark Wisdom and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Awudi Gadri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449037024
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Revealed Myths about Trokosi Slavery written by Stephen Awudi Gadri and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A song has this phrase: " Love is flowing like a river flowing out from you and me spreading out into the desert, setting all the captives free. Yes, the captives are those who don't know who they are, those who don't know they are God's children." Peace Pilgrim 25,000 miles on foot for peace. This book is about modernizing and eliminating a ritual servitude and dehumanizing practice known as "TROKOSI." The Trokosi system is one of the most ancient practices still found among Ewes in Ghana, Togo and Dahomey in West Africa. Shrouded in mystery, its origin can be traced to the practice of paying deities for services rendered. A trokosi, is a vestal virgin, yet to experience menarche, and who is given to a deity to atone for sins or offences committed by a relative. Some citizens of the world live in subjection to others and most of them would work their entire lives to repay a debt the y never personally incurred. This book is educating the practitioners and communities on the human rights abuses of the victims and mobilizing the regional and international community on the eradicating of the practice, raise support to invest and empower the priest and communities to embrace an economic industry as an alternative income. This book also congratulate Barrack Obama, the first African-American President first ever visit to Ghana on the 11th July, 2009 with the slogan, "YES WE CAN."
Author : Beatrice Korankyewa Quist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Trokosi System and Its Impact on Women in Ghana written by Beatrice Korankyewa Quist and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wisdom Yaw Mensah
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467029793
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Female Ritual Servitude written by Wisdom Yaw Mensah and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Daniel Mawuli Tsikata
Publisher : VDM Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783639070323
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Cultural Practices and Exclusion of Girls from Education written by Daniel Mawuli Tsikata and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Trokosi cultural practice in south-eastern Ghana and its consequence on girls' education from the perspectives of inclusion and exclusion. The Trokosi is a traditional cultural practice in which a virgin girl is sacrificed to a shrine to atone for an offence committed by a family or a relative; meaning the girl is not the offender. The minority of the Trokosi girls who are redeemed from the shrine after payment of ransom by their parents are partially included in modern education. As a traditional system, the Trokosi is immersed in fear. The book also highlights the Trokosi system based on strong traditional belief and due to its efficacy the proponents of the system uphold it and socialize the Trokosi girls into accepting it; thereby accepting their destiny. The traditionalists believe any move to abolish the system implies destroying their customs. The Ghana government, representing modernity is based on scientific principle of rationality, banned the practice by law but finds it difficult to implement the law. Thus both the Trokosi girls and the government are caught in between tradition and modernity as regards inclusion and exclusion in modern education. This implies that as long as the government remains in dilemma the Trokosi girls would be excluded from modern education or few would be partially included.
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Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Second National Workshop on Trokosi System in Ghana written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meera Venkatachalam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108276
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850–Present written by Meera Venkatachalam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Report of the Second National Workshop on Trokosi System in Ghana written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Biko Agozino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351913018
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice written by Biko Agozino and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminology is an established discipline, yet non-Western criminology is still relatively ignored in the literature. Drawing upon materials from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Europe, this stimulating book reflects on the experiences of people of African descent to offer a convergence of criminologies in and outside the West.
Author : Robert Kwame Ame
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739169106
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Children's Rights in Ghana written by Robert Kwame Ame and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book that examines Ghana's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ghana being the first country to ratify the Convention, it thus fills an important gap in the literature on Ghana. The book throws a searchlight on a wide range of rights issues including children's identity, violence against children and women, child exploitation and children in conflict with the law plus a host of other CRC related issues and further identifies and explains the main obstacles in the way of realizing children's rights in Ghana. A major strength of this book is that the contributors, Ghanaians and non-Ghanaians alike have vast experience in empirical research in Ghana and most importantly, come from diverse academic disciplines. Researchers, instructors, and students of Social Work, Sociology, Criminology Human Rights, Education and Law, are examples of a few academic disciplines that would find this book a welcome relief in their search for relevant and current data on children's issues in Ghana. It should also be of great interest to policy makers, human rights activists, Children's NGOs and international development partners interested in children's issues.
Author : Paul Dogba (Father, S.V.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Trokosi practice among the Ewes of Ghana written by Paul Dogba (Father, S.V.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trokosi is a traditional religious crime control practice of the Ewes in West Africa. It is believed that when an ancestor or a family member commits a crime, the gods impose expletive of calamities and mysterious deaths on the family. To avert this, a virgin girl from the family of the accused is sent to the trokosi shrine for atonement. This research evaluates the practice in the Southern Volta Region of Ghana. It highlights the tension between culture and morality in the trokosi controversy. Trokosi culture understands morality as obeying the unchanging moral absolutes handed down by the ancestors. The violation of which, calls for the destruction of the community by the gods. However, the violation of the rights of women and children by the practice has also attracted world's attention. It has been accused as a form of slavery and therefore, should be eradicated by law. This thesis explains the failure of prohibition. It is more appropriate to understand the trokosi controversy through moral theology. The Trokosi moral theology of sacrifice interprets the suffering of the trokosi girls as a form of salvation for the entire community. A parallel is drawn with the redemptive sacrifice of Jesus for the liberation of humankind from their sins. There should be deeper theological and spiritual analysis on what makes this practice difficult to eradicate. The trokosi system is seen to eradicate corruption in the country because of the failure of the Ghanaian judicial system. This research is based on the first-hand experience of the researcher as an insider to the community, interviews with those directly related to the practice, as well as secondary data through library and desktop research. Further research is recommended in the Anlo areas on the possibility of enculturating the practice into the Christian faith.
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Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Securing the Inalienable Rights of Women and Children in Trokosi Bondage written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ayi Kwei Armah
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435905408
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born written by Ayi Kwei Armah and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beginners' guide to the fundamentals of the Dru meditation technique, a method for soothing the mind and relaxing the emotions. The programme includes six short guided meditations designed to instill a sense of profound stillness, quieten and calm a stressed mind and reconnect with the important aspects of life. Each nine-minute meditations is based on one of the elements: Earth, Water, Light, Air and Sky.
Author : Marta Santos Pais
Publisher : UNICEF-IRC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A Human Rights Conceptual Framework for UNICEF written by Marta Santos Pais and published by UNICEF-IRC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521840686
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 written by David Eltis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Author : Kwei Quartey
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812979362
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Wife of the Gods written by Kwei Quartey and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fans of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency may have a new hero: Detective Inspector Darko Dawson.”—The Wall Street Journal Introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field—and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he’s been ordered by his cantankerous boss to leave behind his loving wife and young son in Ghana’s capital city to lead a murder investigation: In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young woman—a promising medical student—has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. Dawson is fluent in Ketanu’s indigenous language, so he’s the right man for the job, but the local police are less than thrilled with an outsider’s interference. For Dawson, this sleepy corner of Ghana is rife with emotional land mines: an estranged relationship with the family he left behind twenty-five years earlier and the painful memory of his own mother’s inexplicable disappearance. Armed with remarkable insight and a healthy dose of skepticism, Dawson soon finds his cosmopolitan sensibilities clashing with age-old customs, including a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. Delving deeper into the student’s haunting death, Dawson will uncover long-buried secrets that, to his surprise, hit much too close to home. Praise for Wife of the Gods “An absolute gem . . . mystery fans have an important new voice to savor.”—Los Angeles Times “Full of suspense, humor and plot twists . . . Quartey’s remarkable characters give the reader a worthy whodunit.”—Ebony “[A] winning debut . . . Dawson is a wonderful creation, a man as rich with contradictions as the Ghana Quartey so delightfully evokes.”—Publishers Weekly “Engrossing . . . [Quartey] renders a compelling cast of characters. . . . Fans of McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency will relish the opportunity to discover yet another intriguing area of Africa.”—Booklist (starred review)
Author : Mary Romero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405152060
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities written by Mary Romero and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is afirst-rate collection of social science scholarship oninequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender,sexuality, age, and nationality. Highlights themes that represent the scope and range oftheoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emergingtopics in the field of social inequalities. Gives special attention to debates in the field, developingtrends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in thestudy of social inequalities. Includes an editorial introduction and suggestions for furtherreading.
