This book explores the Trokosi cultural practice in south-eastern Ghana and its consequence on girls education from the perspectives of inclusion and exclusion. The Trokosi is a traditional cultural practice in which a virgin girl is sacrificed to a shrine to atone for an offence committed by a family or a relative; meaning the girl is not the offender. The minority of the Trokosi girls who are redeemed from the shrine after payment of ransom by their parents are partially included in modern education. As a traditional system, the Trokosi is immersed in fear.
The book also highlights the...