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Festival celebrating Benin's Voodoo religion draws thousands
Ouidah in Benin hosted thousands of visitors on Friday for the 2025 Voodoo Festival. The annual festival featured traditional ceremonies, dances, and rituals that offer deep insights into the ...
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Inside West Africa's vanishing voodoo rituals — the world’s most secretive and misunderstood religion
Predating many religions by tens of thousands of years, Voodoo is a way of life in its country of origin, Benin. Battle of Benin I’ve arrived in the tiny nation to unearth the final frontier of ...
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Benin and other West African kingdoms
The kingdom of Ife developed in the rainforest in the 600s. Its art and religion influenced the culture of Benin, which began in the 900s and reached the height of its power between the 1400s and ...
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African Herbsmen Healing and Religion along the Bight of Benin
This film explores the integration of religion and plantbased medicine in an Ewe vodu community in southern Togo A village priest healer local ethnobotanists and a religious marketeer guide us ...
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Clergy focus on inner reflection in a ‘noisy and violent’ world
Nearly 640 priests from Benin’s 10 dioceses met for the 50th General Assembly of the Union of Beninese Clergy (UCB), focusing on African priests’ evolving role and mission amid the continent’s growing ...