Marie Laveau and the Gullah Geechee What is Pan African tradition in the Diaspora? Come learn Marie Laveau and the Gullah Geechee The New Orleans style of voodoo derives from the cultures of Benin’s Dahomey Empire, the Yoruba and the Akan. It is an Afro-creole tradition. Creole is a Portuguese word meaning “home born”. … Continue reading Marie Laveau and the Gullah Geechee
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Marie Laveau and the Gullah Geechee
Southern root work, Hoodoo and Voodoo
Southern root work, Hoodoo and Voodoo What does Southern root work, hoodoo, and voodoo have to do with Pan Afrakanism? For most people, the word Voodoo begins to conjure up televised pictures of a wrathful hag stealing bits of your DNA so that they could make a doll with it and then work evil into… Continue reading Southern root work, Hoodoo and Voodoo