Voodoo in Benin: a cult based on the divinatory art of Fâ

Audio 29:00

Daagbo Hounon and the high priestess © Guillaume Ploquin / RFI

By: Pascal Paradou

30 mins

In Benin, voodoo is a cult but above all a complex and ancestral culture based on Fâ, divinatory art. 

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Audience with the pontiff Daagbo Hounon and decryption with 

Kakpo Mahougnon

, professor of African Literatures at the

University of Abomey-Calavi

and former Minister of Education. 

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