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How A Jamaican Returned To Benin To Pour Libation For Her Ancestors

How A Jamaican Returned To Benin To Pour Libation For Her Ancestors
How A Jamaican Returned To Benin To Pour Libation For Her Ancestors! from YouTube

The Image of AFRICA has been DISTORTED around the WORLD & We are CHANGING the NARRATIVES via YOUTUBE videos One Country At Time.Until the HISTORY of AFRICA is told by AFRICANS, the story of GREATNESS will always GLORIFY the IMPERIALISTS!

https://youtu.be/7ITxSKoRhIk Wode Maya talks to a Jamaican woman from England who returned to Benin during the Vodun festivals to pour libations for her Ancestors. She speaks of her life in England, the desire to learn her history, and her awakening into African spirituality.

Voodoo dances and rituals wow tourists at Benin festival

Vodun Day 2023
Voodoo dances and rituals wow tourists at Benin festival by Seraphin Zounyekpe from Reuters

On Benin’s national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haystacks, delighting worshippers and tourists alike.

  OUIDAH, Benin, Jan 11 (Reuters) – On Benin’s national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haystacks, delighting worshippers and tourists alike. Over a thousand people gathered in the small Atlantic coast town of Ouidah on Tuesday, once an important port in the slave trade, to watch…

Coming October 9: Live Chat With Onuora Abuah of AEA Films

Dahomey & The Woman King

https://youtu.be/bUqGCSWcKD8 The Woman King (2022) is a mammoth effort for a Hollywood movie which attempts to tell the tale of the Agojie/Mino fighters of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the early 19th century. Onuora will be discussing the history behind the film and the depiction of the film’s characters. CashApp: £OnuoraAbuah Paypal Donation: paypal.me/OnuoraAbuah Don’t…

KINI ITUMO AJE – What is the meaning of Aje? – English Subtitles – YouTube

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_GyC2Uwh7I[/embed] Olokun (Yoruba: Olóòkun) is an orisha spirit in Yoruba religion. Olokun is believed to be the parent of Aje, the orisha of great wealth and of the bottom of the ocean. Carefully Watch the video for full & detail Story about Aje. Thanks for watching! [su_button url=”https://youtu.be/0_GyC2Uwh7I” target=”blank” style=”soft” background=”#BF4D28″ size=”10″ icon=”icon: thumbs-o-up” text_shadow=”1px…

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