The voodoo religion, with 30 million followers in West Africa, is one of the most misunderstood faiths in the world. NPR's John Burnett explores the deities, music and rituals of voodoo.

The voodoo religion, with 30 million followers in West Africa, is one of the most misunderstood faiths in the world. NPR's John Burnett explores the deities, music and rituals of voodoo.

Voodoo is practiced by around 12% of the West African country's population of 13 ... to watch the elaborate annual rituals of dance and drumming to honour the 500-year-old religion's panoply ...

Voodoo and West Africa's Spiritual Life, Part 2 Veneration of ancestors, supplication to the gods, and animal sacrifice -- these are among the suite of rituals that form a complicated canon of ...

The voodoo religion, with 30 million followers in West Africa, is one of the most misunderstood faiths in the world. NPR's John Burnett explores the deities, music and rituals of voodoo.

American Apparel should dismantle its "makeshift Vodou" display and not associate African spiritual traditions or religions with Halloween, Shantrelle Lewis argues at Ebony magazine. Lewis is ...

The negative portrayal of Voodoo in American culture goes back at least to the Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s, said Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, a retired professor of African Studies at the ...

PORTO-NOVO, Benin — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to ...

On Benin's national voodoo holiday, ... Voodoo Dances And Rituals Wow Tourists At Benin Festival. By Pulcherie Adjoha and Seraphin Zounyekpe Published 01/11/23 AT 8:18 AM EST.