Last Places | Ethnographic Trips on Instagram: "Benin's Ouidah Voodoo Festival is Africa's capital of voodoo. Voodoo is the most widespread animist religion in the world. Slaves took it with them to the 'new world', where it adapted and evolved into different branches that still exist, such as Santería and Candomblé. The main festival is centered in Ouidah, a coastal town in southern Benin, historically a port associated with the slave-trade era. At the festival there is a blend of deep spiritua