Some West African villages are known for voodoo, intense rituals, powerful masked dances and fire-eating ceremonies. Art ...

OUIDAH, Benin, Jan 11 (Reuters) - On Benin's national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haystacks, delighting worshippers and ...

Tomb raiders have dug up more than 100 graves at a cemetery in Benin since Saturday for what authorities suspect is a black-market trade in human organs and skulls for voodoo ritual fetishes. The ...

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One of the world’s oldest religions, Voodoo originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — present-day Benin — and is rooted in animism, the belief that all things, from rocks and trees to animals and places, ...

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 ...