“Voodoo is about love. It is about being in harmony with nature,” said Martine de Souza Gandjaï Mabegbé, a Voodoo Priestess in the coastal city of Ouidah. “The Europeans tried to erase it.

a tiny corner window illuminates Benin’s most renowned Voodoo priest. He is performing an oracle reading - mine. He holds strings of cowry shells, water in a glass and miniature statuettes to ...

who established the Voodoo Spiritual Temple in 1990 with her late husband, Priest Oswan Chamani. “What people think of as voodoo practice now is superficial. They could never understand the ...