For the past three years, the government of Benin has organised an international festival around the 10 January, a date ...

Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal ...

On the newly-renovated streets of Ouidah, thousands of Beninese and foreign tourists gathered this week to discover the ...

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OUIDAH, Benin (AP) — As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from ...

NMAF copy 39088019239706 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. "The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi ...

There are many legends associated with the voodoo religion. Her rituals are surrounded by an aura of mystery. The small West African state of Benin is considered the cradle of this religion. In the ...

Voodoo is a religion that has been in existence for age, often seen as fetish and its practitioners respected out of fear of being charmed by them. At least some moves are being made to show how ...

The ancient origins of African magic -- The gods of prehistoric Africa -- The slave trade and its consequences -- Christianity encounters the old African religions -- Strange religious hybridization - ...