Western perceptions of Africa can be one-dimensional -- determined by images of war and safari parks. "Voodoo and Vaccines" takes us to a real place of dirt roads, of crowded hospital wards and of ...

In western Africa, different communities practice the religion of Voodoo, a belief system based on the idea that their ...

As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena are beckoned upon by ...

it's really where -- Haiti is where voodoo comes from in the Western hemisphere. So it's brought from a lot of much more ancient tribal African practices that were brought along. You know ...