About 30 million people in slavery

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  • Agyeman. 12 years ago

    But trokosi-ism is also a form of slavery.Perhaps even worse bcoz its a culturally approved form of slavery.

  • Kwaku 12 years ago

    Can we get the criteria in identifying slavery?Probably the entire 25 million population of Ghana are slaves.Look at the Kayayie,potters,street hawkers in Accra right in front of Flagstaff House with our leaders looking.

  • True Talk 12 years ago

    They sell their own for fufu and akrantie pooh soup.

  • Pensioner 12 years ago

    SSNIT has not paid workers who went on retirement since mid 2012 their pensions up till now - reason: no cash

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

    This is no Slavery rather hunger move
    to survive no Jobs and one to survive
    what do we do, if you steal,prison is
    your place, this is Hungary explotion
    and not Slavery.

  • kwame 12 years ago

    NEXT TIME LOOK FOR MORE SLAVES IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES LIKE SAUDI ARABIA QATAR ETC

  • kwame 12 years ago

    TROKOSI IS NOT IN GHANA.IT IS IN THE VOLTA REGION. VOLTARIANS ARE VISITORS TO GHANA.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

    WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SLAVES THAT WAS SHIPPED FROM THE CASTLES TO THE WHITE MANS COUNTRY AND TROKOKOSI IN GHANA?
    I AM PROUD THAT MY GREAT GRAND MOTHER WAS A TOKOSI.IT WAS NOT HER WILL TO BECOME SLAVE TO ANYBODY BU ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

    CORRECTION SLAVES THAT WERE SHIPPED.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

    In a slave market, an owner is showing his slaves for selling.
    A man come to the shop and pointing to an American slave and asked, "how much he is?". The owner said, "$100". And the man pioint to a Russian slave, asked again ...
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  • Can't Happen Here 12 years ago

    We are all slaves here. It's called the prison planet and the people are enslaved to the bankers and their money system . This system enslaves all of us and the people are just blind to this. If u get a loan u are a slave to ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

    What is Reuters doing to end this modern type of slavery? They are obliged to; aren't they?

  • Kofi 12 years ago

    do no believe the numbers because I think it way below the true figure. Don't we have more than this figure in only the United States?

  • CONTEMNOR 12 years ago

    WHAT A CURSED COUNTRY NIGERIA , ABA, NEMESIS UK' FAMILY ARE PART OF THE SLAVES IN NIGERIA. THESE 'K' LEG SLAVES ALWAYS GIVING WEST AFRICANS BAD NAME