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HORRIBLE: See How Little Girls Are Offered As Slaves To Become Wives To Gods

by Zancy
April 16, 2021
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There are global efforts fighting modern slavery, but one traditional system is still holding strong in West Africa: Trokosi. The Conversation Africa’s Moina Spooner spoke to Wisdom Mensah about the system and what can be done to finally put a stop to it. 

Trokosi is a traditional system where virgin girls, some as young as six years old, are sent into Troxovi shrines (shrines for gods) as slaves to make amends for wrongs committed by a member of the virgin girl’s family. 

Until the Trokosi system came to the attention of the general public in the 1990s, girls sent to the shrines stayed for life. 

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After the 90’s some of the priests and elders were willing to let the girls go back home after a few years, for a few months, but had to return whenever they were sent for. When they die, the family must replace her with another virgin girl. This means that the family will pay reparation, of one girl, forever. 

The Trokosi system is based on the belief that gods have the power to search for wrongdoers and punish them. People who feel an injustice has been committed against them, go to the shrine and place a curse on the offender so that they will be punished by the gods. 

These curses take several forms, strange sicknesses, unexplained deaths, incurable diseases, or successive deaths within a family. When the virgin girls are sent to the shrines, they become the “wives of the gods” and are s$xually exploited by the priests and shrine elders.

The shrine priest is the spiritual head of the shrine and “proxy for the gods” while clansmen can be appointed as elders of the shrine. 

The girls are forced to work in any capacity that suits these priests and elders – for instance, on their farms. If there are children born out of the relationship with them, they become the responsibility of the virgin girls’ family. It’s not sure when Trokosi systems began, but it’s an ancient practice. 

The word Trokosi comes from the Ewe language, Ewe communities found in Benin, Togo, and Ghana. It’s a combination of two Ewe words “tro” and “kosi.” “Tro” means god or deity, and “kosi” means slave. Trokosi, therefore, means “slave of God.” Most of the people that live in the southern Volta Region of Ghana, southern Togo, and southern Benin believe and practice the Trokosi system.  

Trokosi priests ensure they are reminded of this by issuing warnings that they must send their virgin girls as objects of reparation. The practice also thrives because there’s a group of traditionalists, mostly male, who strongly believe that Trokosi is part of the Ewe’s cultural heritage and must be preserved. They, therefore, oppose every attempt to stop the practice. 

Over the past two decades, Ghana’s human rights commission and various NGOs adopted different intervention approaches to end the practice. The strategies which worked best included: Encouraging Trokosi priests and elders to accept other objects of reparation, instead of people. 

For instance, several shrines have modernized the practice by replacing virgin girls with cows as objects of reparation. Negotiations with priests and shrine elders to set slaves free and sign legal documents to ensure they won’t go back to the practice. 

In exchange they receive a package that will help them generate income, replacing the loss of human capital. For instance, a number of cows that they can breed. 

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Whilst the Trokosi women are still enslaved they can be provided with vocational skills training. They gain much-needed skills which will help them generate income and support their children in the future – and it also creates some distance between them and the shrine as they attend the training in centers every day. Once free, women need micro-financing and also emotional and mental support. 

Finally, since this issue is a gross human rights violation against women and children, the International Community should put pressure on the government and people of Ghana to enforce the 1998 law making the Trokosi practice a crime. 

If the pressure is brought by international organizations such as the United Nations, African Union, ECOWAS, European Union, etc. the practice of Trokosi in West Africa can be brought to an end quickly.’

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