Benin is little known for its influence on African popular music. It is better known as the home of vodun, an ancient religion native to West Africa and the root of the syncretic religion voodoo found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I grew up in Malawi with Sunday school teachers who treated anything linked to “voodoo” as danger in capital letters. African ...

On the newly-renovated streets of Ouidah, thousands of Beninese and foreign tourists gathered this week to discover the rituals and deities bound up with voodoo, a popular animist tradition which has ...