I heard
before I left Ghana that the Friday Voodoo Market in Togo was worth a visit and
so we embarked on a journey to Vogan that I hadn’t anticipated to be so long
and uncomfortable. It is a huge general market but has areas devoted to
fetishes and articles used in Voodoo celebrations, worship & sacrifices.
Voodoo is one of the main religions in Togo.
As expected,
the stallholders, most of whom were Traditional Priests, were not happy to pose
for photos, but a few CFAs made a difference and we could snap whatever we
liked.
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| These are dead birds, cleaned and dried. |
The round trip took three and a half hours but was worth the dreadful
road surfaces and the dust! I am still trying to imagine what they do with all
this stuff. I don’t think there is any danger of my conversion to Voodoo
practices in the near future but it was all rather fascinating.
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