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Meet the Ghanaian 'Skate Gal' inspiring girls to ride

Meet the Ghanaian ‘Skate Gal’ inspiring girls to ride

As dawn broke behind her, Harmonie Bataka skated in wide curves down a suburban street on the outskirts of Ghana’s capital, Accra, empty but for a scattering of people going to church. Sundays used to be the only time 27-year-old Bataka could skateboard, when the streets were quiet and she didn’t have to work. That was before she quit her job last year to pursue the sport full time, to the…