Inside Vodun Days: What It’s Really Like To Experience Benin’s Most Important Cultural Festival - Travel Noire

Inside Vodun Days: What It’s Really Like To Experience Benin’s Most Important Cultural Festival - Travel Noire

I grew up in Malawi with Sunday school teachers who treated anything linked to “voodoo” as danger in capital letters. African shrines sat in the same mental folder as horror films, even though I lived on a continent full of discussions of altars, spirits, and rituals with long lineages. Years later, based in Europe and writing about travel, I realised how far that fear had pushed me from my own continent’s spiritual history. So, when an invitati…