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		<title>Three Trees in Abuja</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[St Josephine Bakhita understood what it is to be treated as property. Kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery, she lived through years of degradation that tried to erase her personhood. Her feast day exists because we refuse to look away from what was done to her, and from what is still being done [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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