I Went To The Biggest Vodoo Festival In Africa(Benin) 

What’s your thoughts on Vodoo Religion?? Please LIKE THIS VIDEO!

Wode Maya you will never lose me as a subscriber no matter what you do. Weda festival in Benin let me tell you brazil, Cuba,Haiti, evensouth America practice it the the slaves have also migrated and followed the same cutlure. JuJu is everywhere not just west Africa... Congo, Mali,South Africa even the islam some sects have a form called Sufism. You just touching the surface. Love you and always will. I am my brother's keeper.

This is so interesting! The more you travel, the more you learn! 🤯

Thank you for highlighting traditional African spirituality on your platform. It makes me so sad that Africans across the globe have been made to fear who we are at our core. The oppressors really did a number on us, but we are waking up. Keep going brotha! ✊🏿❤🖤💚

Thank you Woda Maya for educating the World about our culture. Afrika to the World 🌎 ❤!!! Proud to be an afrikan.

Wow, once a year in Jamaica we have Johnkonuu. Same thing on a smaller scale. Men on stilts, people in costumes. Dancing and revelry all day. The culture carried.

One year I attended a Oshun festival here in America. The women who did my alterations was from Nigeria. I walked in her shop and couldn’t believe my eyes! There she was dressed traditionally but watching Joel Olsteen a christian prosperity preacher. I didn’t say anything about it, I just laughed in my mind. Oh Colonization is some evil powerful witchcraft What’s the spell? Christianity ghost spell

Heavenly Father, I pray that you keep anybody reading this alive,safe,healthy and financially Blessed Amen 🙏🙏

It's things like this that make me feel proud to be african, thank you wade maya

Thank you Wode Maya. I'm so pleased that you have shown this video. It's time we remember our African religion and culture. I'm staying right here on your channel FOREVER. Peace xxx

Beautiful coverage I would subscribe all over again if i could. Bless you maya.

AM DEFINATELY GOING TO FILM THE NEXT FESTIVAL. IN THE MEANTIME, LET ME SHARE THIS VIDEO. Much love from South Africa

Voodoo, Hoodoo, Palo, Juju, none of them are inherently evil especially not just because some people are afraid of them.

Well you gained a follower!!! Love this...thank you

Wode i hope you get a chance to visit little africa in the caribbean. JAMAICA

Africa was it's own reality

Thanks for sharing, but I think it's a good thing to expose Vodoo to the world to change the perception that many have regarding the African traditional system. Vodoo in my opinion is the expression of nature and Africans connection with the supernatural through our ancestors.

My brother I love you I love Miss Trudy I come from a royal family big royal family we learned something those tanks are not good at all many of our people are getting out of that thing because those things are evil, I know it's good to educate people to see but God want us to worship him alone

Much love Wode; am definitely starting RU-vid because of you

The man in the KETA T-shirt explaining the history behind the festival was a teacher in the arts department of my school KETASCO whilst I was in the science department before I completed in 2013 ......

The word is VEDU which is EƲEGBE aka EWE language as distorted by the europeans. VEDU was distorted by the French as voudou and voodoo by the English. EƲEGBE is spoken by the Adza/Adja group of people from Trans Volta or Western Togoland, Togo, Benin 🇧🇯 and Nigeria.

This is real Africans religion every other ones are fake big up Maya

They people who want to witness the festival cannot be stopped because it is a display and pride day of an African culture.

@Wode Maya, you should visit Japan and check out the Obon festival Aug 13, Aug 16, Kyoto`s is the most popular.

There is a community in the East Maprusi area called Gbangu and the Peyton there are seen as gods or ancestors and these large snakes come into the hats and the feed them salt. pepper and dawadawa. Maya you can check it out its close to Gambaga

Kenyan in the House.🇰🇪🇰🇪Mapema ndio best💪

Vodoo means spirit,

Wode I'll happy if you visit my country Sierra Leone 🇸🇱

Wode what was going on in 0:34, if you see how I burst laugh! You are too hilarious, thank you for all you do! I love your vlogs well done 🎉🎉🎉

Wada nothing wrong for visitors coming to Benin. Culture marketing all africans visit Benin

This is just what we Africans do and others want everything we have. This festival is taking away the fears. Try going to another city in Benin next year.

The foolish thing is when people worship something made by their hands I think the created things should worship the creator Mmmmh I LOVE MY JESUS

Bro you might have lost a million people but you gained a million more , for those of us who could not be there just watching it was a big family reunion Thanks for posting it PEACE 🍹

Every educative video. Please do this kind of video annually 😍😍😍

I feel exactly the same way wode! It seem to be for tourists attention

You have to go when it is quiet

Thank you for educating us , hope we can collab one day, I'm from Ghana but reside in London n travel around .I've just started my channel ,we'l linkup soon

Good job bro.watching from kenya

I hope they all this vodoo to improve the quality of life of the ordinary African. Africa needs to learn from the Europeans.

Vodoo is a part of every family culture here... It's cool for those who get benefits out of it...

The European tell us that everything about us is evil . Yet they Don't tell us about the evil they've done to us🇯🇲❤

If you are here in 2090,I was here💙 2022 WODE MAYA was young youtuber who came from GRASS TO GRACE and he was among the best youtubers in his generation. In 2022 Ghanaian youtubers was doing absolutely good, getting better everyday and it was love worldwide. We Ghanaians, we are proud of this success story. Hope the world is better place 2090? stay safe and be nice human🇬🇭💙

If you don’t know where you are coming from, you will never know where to go. Just know yourself. Thanks Wode Maya for this new report on our Culture.

We have to sell the tourists a watered down version. Especially those who come to see to learn and dissect, not to appreciate or respect.

As a togolese and a proud one, i can testify this is the root ... 🇹🇬❤️ We grew up to this and we'll never be scared of it ...

Time to change our mindset African people and embrace what's ours. We have allowed Whites to determine our religion, culture, and language.

Despite the atrocities, the culture survives!!!!!

I think Europeans have always and continue to try and permeate what is not for them at all times. Their presence brings down the authenticity- but Voodoo is forever stronger than them. I want to attend this festival at least once , but as a member of the diaspora, I’d rather go to Benin to experience Voodoo away from culture vultures and tourists. Thank you for this exploration, and I am a new subscriber BECAUSE of it! Blessings! 🙏🏾

I like your coverage about Africa. You are well grounded in your own religious beliefs but do not shy away from letting us know what others in Africa believe in. You once covered Islamic fasting season, Christian celebration event in Ethiopia and A traditional religion in Zimbabwe. I have my own beliefs but am here to be educated.

Most cultures have a spiritual belief system, if you check all based on mysticism, however none of them is vilified as the one from Africa, but when you see how the others worship it is all basically the same, but the one practice in Africa is so powerful that it had to banished and seen as evil, this was supposed to be a weapon for protection against your enemy in case of war, but not to be used for self gain. This is supposed to garner the elements, use your mental energy etc, all primitive cultures have or had that ability

Wide Maya is growing right before our eyes because of all the experiences he’s having in his travels. Thank you for sharing your journey with us! 🇺🇸🇿🇦🇯🇲🇻🇮🇳🇬🇬🇭🇧🇯🇹🇹🇹🇬🇨🇦🇨🇮

African culture is very powerful. In my tribe kisiis in Kenya, special people in the community used to gather around a huge tree facing the mountain and rain came during a prolonged drought. The sick got healed. The white man came with a bible and a government, we lost our culture. They told us that our culture was evil and theirs was holy. Look at us now, global warming, incurable diseases, war, homosexuality, corruption and hard economic times.

A lot of Africans are afraid of this side of their culture because of their bad deeds. In the villages that practice these voodos, people hardly commit crime because they know what could happen to them. A lot of us are hiding behind religion and are committing various sins because we get away with it. We all need to open our eyes and start asking questions.

I am African from the southern region and I never heard about it , but then I came to Brazil I found it. We know very little about our own history. Thanks for sharing, it's good to learn new ways of spirituality.

To the person reading this!! Be proud you were born as an African 🙌 Africa is the place to be💪 Together we can make it a better place #Unitedafrica♥️💕

WE MUST DECOLONIZE OUR MIND

This is what was used to fight against the colonizers in many Caribbean countries. The reason they call it evils is because it is powerful when the people use it as a united force, so they had to prevent that use. It is a powerful mental and manifesting belief to be able to manipulate the elements within and out of yourself, and in nature.

MAYA - ON THE CONTRARY- YOU WILL GET MORE SUBSCRIBER'S - KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

You should visit Oyo State in Nigeria especially Ibadan around June That's when we have egungun festival

Wonderful to see the people recognizing you wherever you go, keep us informed and entertain Maya, ❤️ it Brother Man Big up. 👍🏿

Our roots, our heritage, our culture. We have a duty to understand what voodoo means and cherish it.

You are not lossing subscribers , you are educated us ...Thank you

I love us Africans embracing our spirituality, culture, religions and traditions❤️

Always doing a great job keep it up the good work, that’s who we are nothing will stop it. My dear brother weather you will loose 2000 or 5000 do your best to promote who we are, and i know our ancestors will never disappoint you of get more people more than the one you lost. #JMTVGH

Wode Maya and Tayo Aina Kings and Gods of Africaaaa. Loveee you guys ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 we must wake up and UNITE because Africa is the future. Goosebumps.❤

Any African who's against his own land's religion is a non living thing

Maya I was born in Jamaica 🇯🇲 and Voodoo is not viewed as a good thing here. However, when someone is desperate for “help” for a family member or friends, visiting a voodoo person seems to be more common even if they are considered to be Christians. Some may not want to admit it. I can only guess there is good and bad voodoo and people are desperate when the church cannot assist. We use to have really good spiritual leaders and churches in Jamaica such as Pocco churches, who will be the help the community need, but that too became washed up and decreased in right spiritual connection. Everyone have to find their way because everything we thought was good is now bad and everything we thought was bad is now good. We all have to pray for wisdom and understanding and test the spirit. Be Bless. I love what you do.. 🙏🇯🇲🥰🥰

Woow I was shocked to see a person from North Sudan celebrities voodoo festivals

I can’t wait til you visit haiti 🇭🇹 you’ll love it so much history

Africa will progress and african will lead a Confident and respectful life if they leave Colonial abrahamic religions like Christianity and islam. Africans should preserve, protect and improve their own culture, language like the Indians Did.

Vodoo is mainly from the ewe tribe in ghana volta, Togo , Benin and Nigeria badagry.

All sorcerers will have their part in the lake of fire!(Revelation 21:8) Repent and be born again that you be not thrown into the lake of fire, See (John 3:5-7) & (Acts 2:37-38) for what you must do to be saved! God will judge this wickedness. These unclean spiritual practices come from demons and not the living God! All of those who practices these things are an ABOMINATION UNTO THE MOST HIGH GOD (Deuteronomy 18:9-11).

These indeed are the last days when people are calling evil good and good evil! Joshua 24:14-15 (KJV): Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Thanks Maya for the video🥰 I'm here to learn

that was some deep research on that tree I see my Haitian sister is curious too

If our region and believes that makes us still have our lands and identity or dignity then we are most happy 💪🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾👌🏾💪🏾👌🏾

Wode Maya to the all Africa I am from The northern part of Ghana Tamale n I always watch ur videos 🙏🙏🙏💯❤❤

I love the beat from the African Drums...This is such a rich culture that must be protected. It's what keep them as a people United and one.

Thank you maya for showing us this, africa is indeed rich with beautiful cultures. This is so amazing 👏

I don't think it's Africa's only religion. We have many on the continent. Anyway with the Christianization and Islamization of many African regions, many people frown on stuff like this. It's a shame you'll likely lose subscribers, as you said. I don't practice traditional African religions, but I do keep an open mind and want to learn about what the ancestors of the different ethnic group did in their traditional unspoiled cultures the Europeans do this and mix their traditions with Christianity so why is it so bad for Africa to do the same?

This video should be voted a video of the year if not a decade 🤠

Vodun means Spirit. A Nature based Spirituality. Vodun has been Practied by our Ancestors for Thousands of Years just like all other diverse Indigenous Afrikan Spiritualities before Man-Made Colonizer religion was invented and Violently Foreced, via Slavery. Vodun has also Freed many of our Ancestors during the earliest days of the Maafa. Long Live Afrikan Spirituality ❤🖤💚 ✊🏾🌌🌠☀🌕🌳🌴🌺🛖.

I agree with you. All those tourist, especially the European ones, raised a bit of suspicion in me.

it's our culture, it's African. We should be proud of that. Those who told us that it was demonic, they are the same ones who want to have this knowledge at all costs. May this push each of us to go further in our thinking.

Africa is blessed with authentic culture n history

OUR SISTER SAID IT ALL....EVERYTHING AFRICAN IS REGARDED AS EVIL BUT LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF MUZUNGUS HERE..

Beautiful 👊🏿👊🏾👊🏽If you want the real experience you should find someone to take you to a priest to do divination for you privately without all the fan fair. To a real shrine. What's strange to me is that 🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻are there. Voodoo is a religion you have to have blood ancestral connection to in order to be initiated. 🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻want the secrets? They can NEVER be initiated into this Fon by birthright religion. Please come to Cuba and show our Yoruba Nigerian religion IFA, Santeria. Go to a drum for the orishas in Matanzas or Santiago de Cuba. We are one African people 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🌍

Proudly African and we've learn to respect each others believes. 👌👌

WODE MAYA thank you for this video. I was born a Christian but I have now come to realise it is not my ancestors religion but VOODOO is. So I am educating myself trough your video today. Thank you thank you 😊 🙏🏾💚

WE MUST DECONSTRUCTED OUR MIND

I'm Luo from Kenya, Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe). We do encounter pythons and treat them well, feed them. They have special significance. The particular one called "Omieri" appears occasionally and we treat it well,feed, take care. So I identify with these.

I don't like religion and if you are religious I would prefer that you reject the religion of the colonizers that allowed for the enslavement of your relatives and that you embrace the religion of your own people.

I must thank you for the education that we would have never known, if we don't travel and experience different Cultures.

I’m so proud to say I’m a Benin precisely Ouidah… and I’m in Benin right now ❤

Wode Maya is the best of all times content

Wodamaya why are you not giving us food this days. You are denying us with content this days. Please stay focused because you promise us with great content this year but the channel is too slow with content. Stay blessed

I don’t think a Christian should be part of this.

Witchcraft is of the devil! repent or in hell you will lift up your eyes (Acts 2:37-38)

Thanks, bro, OMG the is so good seeing and hopefully, people learn. But there will be those Black, Africans who will not associate with or even like their culture. They are brained washed to believe the other man's religion is better than their original religion. Remember, what is black and African is always considered not good or evil. Do you remember what is said about black hair, lips, hips, skin color, and religion as not good? Our people remove or change to be like others. May the ancestors be with you brother. 👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿. Know who you are and known its power.

Wode, would you consider renaming this video? A better title could be " Is Voodoo Evil or Magical?" Sent with love