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Brigitte Sossou Perenyi
Brigitte Sossou Perenyi (born in Togo in 1990) is a Ghanaian documentary producer. She lived under conditions of slavery after being kidnapped at the age of seven and sent to Ghanaian sanctuary where ''Trokosi'', or ''wife of the gods'', was a secular practice that sends young women to forced labor to redeem the sins of their relatives. She was adopted by an American art forger and as an adult she returned to Ghana to see the charity that helped her, the Ghanaian family who looked after her and her birth family in Togo. Stories of her life have won awards and in 2018 she was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Women. Life She was born in Togo in 1990. She was the fifth of six children. When she was seven-years-old, her mother sent her to stay with her uncle in, Lome, the capital of Togo where she would be able to go to school. Brigitte was kidnapped by her uncle and taken to a Ghanaian sanctuary to pay for the adultery crime committed by her uncle, according to the ''Trojan'' tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritual Servitude
Ritual servitude is a practice in Ghana, Togo, and Benin where traditional religious shrines (popularly called fetish shrines in Ghana) take human beings, usually young virgin girls, in payment for services or in religious atonement for alleged misdeeds of a family member. In Ghana and in Togo, it is practiced by the Ewe people in the Volta region; in Benin, it is practiced by the Fon. These shrine slaves serve the priests, elders, and owners of a traditional religious shrine without remuneration and without their consent, although the consent of the family or clan may be involved. Those who practice ritual servitude usually feel that the girl is serving the god or gods of the shrine and is married to the gods of the shrine. If a girl runs away or dies, she must be replaced by another girl from the family. Some girls in ritual servitude are the third or fourth girl in their family suffering for the same crime, sometimes for something as minor as the loss of trivial property. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |