VOLUME 69

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Benben Menzeba Hasati Benben Menzeba Hasati

The Origins of Dance Part III: Vodun

The knowledge from our culture and traditions is what guides us towards quality and human development. Your culture is what defines you. If our perception of the world doesn’t come from our culture, then it is no longer our culture that is defining who we are. If our attitude towards vodoun stems from what our colonizer had labeled it to be, ‘evil’ or ‘taboo’, then we have surrendered our own system of survival to serve a system that has made the tireless effort to omit the concept of spirituality from our lives for centuries.

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