Like Cotton Twines
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UPC: 014381002676 / Publisher: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT, January 1900
When an American volunteer takes a teaching job in a Ghanaian village and meets a bright fourteen-year-old girl who is forced to drop out of school and become a religious slave in retribution for a deadly accident commited by her father, he has to confront the tribe and its religious customs to save the girl from her fate.
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"Micah Brown, an African-American volunteer, takes a teaching job in a remote Ghanaian village, where he is eager to help his students fulfill their potential. There he meets Tuigi, a bright 14-year-old girl who must atone for a deadly accident committed by her father and, according to religious custom, must abandon her education and be offered as a slave to the gods. Locked in a battle between history, church and state, Micah is determined to give Tuigi a life outside tradition."
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