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1/11/2003
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National Voodoo Festival Draws Thousands in West Africa's Benin
Author: The Associated Press Source: ABC News
Title: THOUSANDS ATTEND VOODOO FESTIVAL
At least 60 percent of 6.3 million people of the West African nation of Benin practice voodoo a tradition that holds, in part, that life derives from the natural forces of earth, water, fire and air.
Countless Africans shipped into slavery from this lagoon-lined strip of the south Atlantic then called the Slave Coast took the legacy of voodoo with them to the Caribbean, American South, and elsewhere.
Today, scores of Americans and Haitians return every year to attend the Jan. 10 festival, launched here first in 1995.
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