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
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, professor of African Literatures at the
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and former Minister of Education.
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