Togo's chief voodoo priest is predicting success for Togo's football team at the World Cup in Germany. "The ancestral spirits say that Togo will go far at the World Cup," Togbui Assiogbo Gnagblondjro ...

Woman arrives dancing and singing at an Epe Ekpe festival, dressed in a traditional white toga. Statue of a voodoo god in the fetish market in Lome, Togo. Monkey skulls are just a few of the animal ...

About 100 healers and witchcraft doctors work in the Akodessewa district of Lome, the capital of Togo About 100 healers and witchcraft doctors work in the Akodessewa district of Lome, the capital of ...

The fetish market in Togo, Africa, is a one-stop shopping paradise for witch doctors and medicine men – as well as a must-see for tourists. This dusty lot in the center of town covers an entire city ...

The voodoo follower stood bare-chested with beads around his neck in the centre of the public square in Bè, a working class district of Togo’s capital, Lome. A dozen priests surrounded him as he made ...

”May our ancestors protect you and guide your every step,” newspaper editor and voodoo high priest Togbui Gnagblondjro III whispers to the children who have come to pay their respects. He is standing ...

A fetish market in Togo is a little like a voodoo version of Boots. It’s filled with ingredients used by witch doctors to treat ailments from infertility to depression, and heady potions believed to ...

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LOMÉ, Togo—For at least half of Togo’s population of 2.5 million, Vodun, or Voodoo, is a way of life. European colonialism and post-colonial autocracies failed to fully suppress the religion and its ...

Togo's chief voodoo priest on Wednesday called on the country's football federation to consider using traditional ceremonies to "chase away evil spirits" that were afflicting the national game.

Vodun is an ancient religion practiced by some 30 million people in the West African nations of Benin, Togo and Ghana. With its countless deities, animal sacrifice and spirit possession, voodoo — as ...