It has suffered from a bad press internationally but is an official religion in the West African country of Benin. In the voodoo heartland of Ouidah, the sound of drums fills the air, while men ...

Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and ...

She discovered at that choir practice that the Haitian Creole songs the group sang that day were meant to honor the spirits, or “Loa,” who in the Voodoo religion serve as intermediaries ...