I called her Joybell, my soulmate since I was eight. Then her partner killed her and blew up their home

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I called her Joybell, my soulmate since I was eight. Then her partner killed her and blew up their home

Together my best friend Annabel Rook and I worked to support victims of gender-based violence – until she became one herself. Now I feel like a part of myself has been erased. Why aren’t more people outraged? It is the summer of 2005, and we are staying on the sun-kissed shores of Busua, a coastal community in Ghana. The sand here is made of crushed pink shells. Annabel and I pick up handfuls and scrub our stained fe…