Essays about: "TROKOSI system"

Found 1 essay containing the words TROKOSI system.

  1. 1. From Slave Wife of the Gods to " ke te pam tem eng". Trokosi seen through the Eyes of the Participants

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

    Author : Sofia Wiking; [2009]
    Keywords : Human rights; women’s rights; feminism; post colonial feminism; religious education; human right’s education; Ghana; minor field study; religious cultural traditional practice;

    Abstract : AbstractThis final essay in religious studies at Malmö Lärarutbildningen (Teacher’s education) is a minor field study (MFS) carried out in Ghana about Trokosi. Trokosi is a tradition, system and practice where young girls are given to village shrine priests as sexual and domestic slaves, or "wives of the gods", in compensation for offenses allegedly committed by a member of the girl's family. READ MORE