Momome

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Momome is a female cleansing ritual among some Akan groups in present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast. The ritual is aimed at cleansing the community from impending crisis. [1] The momome ritual in the precolonial setting was held in response to wars, but in the 20th century it has been increasingly evoked in moments of crisis (illness, deposition, death) of prominent figures of the chiefly establishment. [1] [2]

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  1. 1 2 Boni, Stefano (2008). "Female Cleansing of the Community. The Momome Ritual of the Akan World". Cahiers d'études africaines (in French). 192 (4): 765–790. doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.15502. hdl: 11380/608559 . ISSN   0008-0055.
  2. ↑ Grillo, Laura (2018-10-19). "Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers". An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa. Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478002635-003. ISBN   978-1-4780-0263-5.
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