Girls in West Africa offered into sexual slavery as 'wives of gods': In certain communities in Benin, Togo and Ghana, young virgin girls are sent to atone for their family's wrongdoing. Linda De Volder/FlickrThere are global efforts fighting modern slavery, but one traditional system is still holding strong in West Africa: Trokosi. The Conversation Africa’s Moina Spooner … [Read more...] about Girls in West Africa offered into sexual slavery as ‘wives of gods’ | The Conversation
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It is not a book club, a yoga club or a theatre club, but about 100 South African wives rely on their own social group to meet and share their experience of prejudice for being married to foreigners. They say that having Nigerian husbands exposes them to daily discrimination, and that they had long predicted the wave of deadly xenophobic violence that has shaken South Africa in … [Read more...] about .com | Wives’ club fights SA xenophobia
