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Nortey was particularly active between the 80s and the turn of the millennium—the period often described as the golden age of
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She was often typecast as a feisty, vocal, assertive, eloquent, no-nonsense, and strong-willed matriarch who confronted outmoded and discriminatory traditions and practices, including the deeply conservative views of the patriarchy, male dominance, backward and dehumanizing socio-cultural practices
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