OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday visited the city considered the capital of voodoo in West Africa, praying at a Catholic cathedral just across the street from a large voodoo temple ...

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 ...

Twenty priestesses, naked from the waist up, sang and danced before spraying the watching crowd with water "blessed" by the divinities. A dozen priests surrounded him as he made incantations, threw ...

(29 Oct 2023) In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, practitioners of the faith believe the country’s forests are home to the spirits they seek guidance from and pray to. But those woodlands in the West ...

Nigerian veteran singer Chinagorom Onuoha, popularly known as African China, has spoken up on how making music endangered his life.The artist, while speaking in a recent episode of Beer Parlor Talk ...

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

Twenty priestesses, naked from the waist up, sang and danced before spraying the watching crowd with water "blessed" by the divinities. The purification ceremonies in Togo are intended to promote ...