Benin's famed Voodoo festival draws Afro-descendents

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Published: 2023-01-11 17:53

Last Updated: 2024-04-26 01:36


Benin's famed Voodoo festival draws Afro-descendents
Benin's famed Voodoo festival draws Afro-descendents

Every year in Benin, locals celebrate a festival of Voodoo. Increasingly, the festival is drawing people of African descent from America, Brazil and the Caribbean who come to discover the religion and land of their ancestors enslaved and shipped away from the beaches of West Africa.