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Queen Mothers Association to re-introduce puberty rites to curb teenage pregnancy

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  • Tina 6 years ago

    Well, it's not female circumcision but sex education, I don't see anything wrong with that.

  • ELINAM 6 years ago

    This rite of passage is as old as Africa and much older that the whole Euro pale race, and it's practice all over Africa from Southern Africa thru East, Central to West Africa. But we've allowed these culture less pale people ...
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  • K.B.A. 6 years ago

    I agree with the Queenmothers 100%. We must re-introduce puberty rites and the strict customs that go with it and the social pressure it puts on everyone to behave in an honourable way.

    After re-introducing puberty rites, ...
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  • Adika 6 years ago

    Creating the awareness is all that is needed among this group of girls and this could be national for all girls to benefit.

  • Joe Boy 6 years ago

    Adika, you are right. It should be introduced in all regions. Not the Ashanti version of puberty rights but the puberty rights that existed before the white man came and told us to destroy our culture.
    Clearly this westerni ...
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  • Heinz-Dieter Spitschan 6 years ago

    Woman's duty in Ghana is: to cook, keep the household, to give birth to children and to be a (sex) slave to her husband; it is your damned and stone age culture, that makes women to be slaves to men - it is not pale men's bla ...
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  • SIRJOEKWAS 6 years ago

    Ghanaians and for that matter Africans must not overconcentrate on Westernized values to train our sons and daughters. Indeen I cannot agree with the Queenmothers the more.They are custodians of the traditions and values of t ...
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