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Kidjo comes from the former slave port of Ouidah, whose vodun religion left a defining mark on the diaspora—a fact that she’s savvily employed to position herself as its worldliest musical medium.
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
Von Vampton’s adversary is Papa LaBas, a detective and vodun priest searching for the Text of Jes Grew, a literary anthology that will complete the virus’s revolution.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
There’s also the free-spirit artist Nola Darling from She’s Gotta Have it and activist healer Nova Bordelon from Queen Sugar who uses weed in her vodun practice.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2021
The author, who lives in Chicago and works at an ad agency, grew up in Alabama and as a child learned of vodun, a religion that later found offshoots in voodoo.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
Von Vampton’s adversary is Papa LaBas, a detective and vodun priest searching for the Text of Jes Grew, a literary anthology that will complete the virus’s revolution.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
There’s also the free-spirit artist Nola Darling from She’s Gotta Have it and activist healer Nova Bordelon from Queen Sugar who uses weed in her vodun practice.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2021
The author, who lives in Chicago and works at an ad agency, grew up in Alabama and as a child learned of vodun, a religion that later found offshoots in voodoo.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
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“Vodun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vodun. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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