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✓ Published: 06-May-2013
✓ Published: 06-May-2013
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The trokosi system is a traditional religious practice found in parts of Ghana, Benin and Togo. The trokosi practice plays an important part in the rural justice system. When a crime is commited, the fetish priest consults the gods to ascertain which family has committed the crime. In order to atone for the crime, that family will have to provide a virgin girl to serve at the shrine. Otherwise, the Ewe people believe, deaths and misfortunes will be visited on the family. The trokosi girl now bel
The trokosi system is a traditional religious practice found in parts of Ghana, Benin and Togo. The trokosi practice plays an important part in the rural justice system. When a crime is commited, the fetish priest consults the gods to ascertain which family has committed the crime. In order to atone for the crime, that family will have to provide a virgin girl to serve at the shrine. Otherwise, the Ewe people believe, deaths and misfortunes will be visited on the family. The trokosi girl now bel
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