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Eighteen years ago today, a baby boy was born in Ghana, Africa. He was named Ametepe, meaning “someone’s replacement.” It is a name often given to a child born after an earlier baby has died. His parents had no way of knowing that, a few hours to the south, two men from America were visiting Ghana for the first time—a visit that God would eventually use to change the course of their son’s life forever.

If you’ve ever spent any kind of time looking at skincare or beauty products, you’re probably familiar with an ingredient called Shea butter—but how much do you really know about what it is, where it comes from, and why it’s so widely used?

In the United States, it can be all too easy to think of slavery as a thing of antiquity—a horrible historic atrocity that has thankfully been abolished in the present day. This view is sadly naïve, as slavery is still a worldwide epidemic—and it’s affecting children most of all.