Now go that voodoo that you do so well - Hedley Lamar.....
My Haitian friends thought voodoo was one reason why Haiti is such a mess of a country, leading to fear, jealousy, passivity, and poison. Poisons that cause death or madness. A zero sum society. To get ahead, you don’t make, you take, and those who try to make are fools. Makers emigrate, so do grifters.
“Our ancestors foresaw this return of Afro-descendants. Their
US. dollars are eagerly awaited by the ghosts of our ancestors,” said Hounnongan Viyeye Noumaze Gbetoton, one of the Vodoun dignitaries in Ouidah.
I thought I was a snake,
I started crawling on the ground.
Thought I was a dog,
I started barking like a hound.
Thought I was a coyote,
Howling at the moon,
Stumbling and bumbling
Like a flipped, mighty goon.
He done voodoo, voodooed me,
He done voodoo, voodooed me.
Just about as mixed up as a gal could be,
He done voo, voo, voo, voo, voodooed me!
bkmk
Benin is stuck in abject poverty, just like similar places that are given over to similar religious practices.
Looks like Mardi Gras