Voodoo is often shrouded in mystery, or demonised. But at the annual Voodoo festival in Benin, tourists are finding out about ...

African slaves met at a plantation called Cayman at night to plan their liberation in August 1791 where a voodoo cultural ritual was conducted. That became the watershed moment in Haitian history ...

The Representations of Voodoo in Popular Culture and Fiction (FRAN 325) is coming to the University of Victoria this 2025 ...

More than 180 people were killed in Haiti in a wave of brutal weekend violence, reportedly targeting voodoo practitioners. According to the Committee for Peace and Development (CPD), the violence ...

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What explains this sorry history? Haiti got off to a wretched ... Duvalier further consolidated power by reviving Haiti’s voodoo traditions, setting himself up as a voodoo priest.

Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the government on Monday condemning a massacre of "unbearable cruelty." ...

"He decided to cruelly punish all elderly people and voodoo practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of sending a bad spell on his son," a statement from the Haiti-based group said.

The report by the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) covers the period between December 6 and 11, during which 134 men and 73 ...