{"id":5357,"date":"2015-05-20T21:23:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asdhostingservices.com\/awdf-2\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:04:52","slug":"nana-darkoa-sekyiamah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/nana-darkoa-sekyiamah\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Teyie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"s1\"><span lang=\"en\"><\/span>Through AWDF&#8217;s Non-Fiction writer&#8217;s program, I was introduced to several new films and books I hadn\u2019t come across before. \u2018Witches of Gambaga\u2019 was terribly moving. On this, the issues of ostracizing women branded \u2018witches\u2019 and breast-ironing were issues that were fairly new to me. 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