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When Noella Wiyaala was eight, her family moved from the relatively large town of Wa in the Upper West Region of Ghana to the village of Funsi. It was quite an adjustment. In Wa, there had been electricity and sugar. In Funsi, it was pitch-black at night, and porridge was sweetened with shea butter, which wasn’t sweet at all. In ...

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