West Africa is fast gaining recognition for its ... Nearly half of Benin’s population practices voodoo officially, and two-thirds unofficially. As Voodoo draws on nature, philosophy ...

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it's really where -- Haiti is where voodoo comes from in the Western hemisphere. So it's brought from a lot of much more ancient tribal African practices that were brought along. You know ...

“It is to come back and live their culture, art and spirituality for those who practice Voodoo,” said Houetchenou. The festival gained popularity over the years from within and outside Africa ...

including the practice of voodoo religion. French colonial rulers peopled Haiti with black slaves captured on the west coast of Africa where the Fon and the Yoruba, among others, practiced voodoo ...

"Voodoo is as sweet as sugar for anyone who practices it with faith," Tolete said on the sidelines of the festival. A tourist from the French Caribbean island of Martinique, Nathy Anika Nsemi ...

was trained in this religious practice. Voodoo originated in the West African country of Benin and later took shape in Haiti, during the transatlantic slave trade. Black was initiated to it in the ...