Devotees perform as they take part in the annual celebration of Voodoo festival in Ouidah, Benin January 10, 2023. REUTERS/ Charles Placide TossouDevotees perform as they take part in the annual celebration of Voodoo festival in Ouidah, Benin January 10, 2023. REUTERS/ Charles Placide Tossou
Voodoo is practiced by around 12% of the West African country’s population of 13 million people, but the authorities also want to use these deep spiritual roots and spectacular customs to attract more tourists and boost the agriculture-dependent economy. “For them, there is a lot of interest in discovering the roots of our ancestors, the African roots,” she says.
As part of its development plan, the government has set aside a stretch of beachfront between the main city Cotonou and Ouidah as a special tourism zone for visitors, who it hopes will also be keen to visit historical slave sites, pre-colonial palaces, and tour the natural wonders of Benin’s interior.
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