Dana Jackson, 51, had traveled to Haiti back in July where she hoped to become a Manbo priestess, specialising in traditional Haitian Vodou rituals. But she never returned from the trip and her ...

Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted ...

No other religion has been so maliciously opposed and deliberately misunderstood by foreign countries for over two hundred years as Vodou, writes Kate Ramsey in «The Spirits and the Law ...

Practitioners believe that all living things – including animals and plants – have spirits, and use rituals, prayers and dances to connect with them. But Vodou has long been "attacked by other ...

From boys caked in black soot to the sound of rara—the Vodou rhythms that are a mainstay ... African traditions and folklore with colonial rituals to create their own fete.