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My life as a ‘fifth wife’ in Niger: The woman who fought her enslaver in court and won

Hadizatou Mani-Karoau was sold off to a local chief, aged just 12, to become a wahaya or "fifth wife". "It was a terrible life. I had no rights; not to rest, not to food, not even to my own life," she tells BBC 100 Women from her home…

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