Vodun is an ancient religion practiced by some 30 million people in the West African nations of Benin, Togo and Ghana. With its countless deities, animal sacrifice and spirit possession, voodoo — as ...
OUIDAH, Benin — As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena are ...
With intentions to be like a Jean Rouch film but results closer to "Mondo Cane," "Voodoo Mounted by the Gods" is an odd docu by lauded Swiss photojournalist Alberto Venzago and exec producer Wim ...
High in the voodoo hills of Haiti above Port-au-Prince, a big bonfire crackled one day last week. Some 200 Haitians, dressed in their cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw ...
Brazil's football team is doing so poorly at the Olympics that people are looking to the heavens for salvation. Gods -- from Afro-Brazilian rites known as Candomble, Umbanda and Macumba -- are being ...
Woman arrives dancing and singing at an Epe Ekpe festival, dressed in a traditional white toga. Statue of a voodoo god in the fetish market in Lome, Togo. Monkey skulls are just a few of the animal ...
Benin's Ouidah has celebrated its annual Voodoo Festival which has made the town a mecca for Voodoo worshippers as well as a tourist attraction. OUIDAH, Benin — As children dance with great speed and ...