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Archive for the ‘Voudon’ Category

Voudon – Dr. Henry Frank

GMR guest Dr. Henry Frank talk about how voudon has served the African people and how it’s been maligned in recent years. Dr. Frank describes voudon’s genesis in Haiti with focus on the Hatian revolution.

They go on to discuss the spread of voudon throughout the world, and how it has been misinterpreted as a form of sorcery or witchcraft. Dr. Frank stresses that voudon is a religion and the object of voudon is benevolence.

Faybiene Miranda’s Poem of the Week Title: I spread my mat, I sit in comtemplation