they are both experts on the trokosi practice.y have spent their lives raising awareness of the abuses that go on in the shrine. sexual servitude was common, and many women will bear the children of the priests. i was liberated before puberty, so i didn't have to go through this. but i wanted to know why someone would serve time for another person's crime. it is believed that they have a right to select any member of their family to serve in the shrine, whether that person committed a crime or not. by the collective principles, they believe they are doing the right thing. when i left the shrine in 1997, there were about 5,000 trokosi women and children in ghana alone. thousands were liberated and trokosi was made illegal in 1998. but no priest has ever been prosecuted, and the practice still goes on. i meet back up with richard, the uber driver whose grandmother is still living as a trokosi. she is one of the few who became a trokosi after she married and had children. speaking to her, it seemed she is happy to be serving as a tro

trokosi is illegal, and it is not often talked about in accra.s me his own grandmother is living as a trokosi. this same system robbed me of my childhood. 20 years later, i am on a journey to understand what really happened. i was told i had to leave home, to go and live with my uncle. i was placed on the back of a motorbike. i didn't even know the driver. i thought it was the strong wind causing my tears, but i think i was actually crying. because i was being taken away from my family. and then i was left at a place i had never been before. i didn't even understand the language. they took away my clothes and wrapped me in a purple cloth. they even took away my name. how old is this girl? seven yea rs name. how old is this girl? seven years old? name. how old is this girl? seven years old ? do name. how old is this girl? seven years old? do you know why you are here? in 1997i was filmed by an american news crew at the place i was being held. a shrine run by a priest dictated to the worship of deities. i was labelled a trokosi, the wife of the god

i was labelled a trokosi 01’ being held.paying for crime committed my uncle. but this support changed everything. an american viewerflew support changed everything. an american viewer flew to ghana to negotiate my release and he adopted me. now that i am older, ifeel ready to explore the cultural background of trokosi. trokosi was made illegal in 1998, year after was freed, but no priest had ever been prosecuted. i met this young 14—year—old girl who is serving as a trokosi. i felt ifelt sad. she i felt sad. she came ifelt sad. she came here i felt sad. she came here two years ago, at the age of 12. so she misses her mum. i don't see how we can justify that. it was time for me to visit my birth family in togo again. i had come to the village a few times but they never had the courage to ask why they gave me away. i was 110w to ask why they gave me away. i was now ready to ask my dad why he had agreed with my uncle. —— what he had agreed. my my uncle had committed adultery. his house was in the capital, long way from my villa

now that i am older, i feel ready to explore the cultural background of trokosi.9 98 —— a year after i was freed. i met this girl who is serving as a trokosi. i felt ifelt sad. she i felt sad. she came ifelt sad. she came here i felt sad. she came here two years ago at the age of 12. and so she misses her mum. i don't see how we can justify that. it was time to visit my birth family in tokyo, —— togo again. i had come to the village a few times, but i never had the courage to ask why they gave me away. i was now ready to ask my dad what he had agreed with my uncle. my my ankle had committed adultery. his house was in the capital, a long way from my village. are you aware now where i was taken? he took me to ghana and i was placed ina he took me to ghana and i was placed in a shrine. he left me. i was supposed to be there for the rest of my life. this journey has helped thisjourney has helped me this journey has helped me value thisjourney has helped me value my own freedom, but it was hard for me to discover that there are still women and girls living under the tr