Is “Beninoise Voodoo” the same as Dahomean Vodoun?
Yes. However, to refer to the Vodoun as practiced in West Africa and the Diaspora as “Beninese” (both noun and plural) would be to limit its practice to one specific geograpahical location, which would be present day Benin, and exclude its much broader scope and practice in both Togo, and Southwest Ghana, and more anciently in Egypt, East Africa, Ancient Ionia (Greece), ancient Aisa Minor (now Turkey), and in Afro-Rome. VODOUN RELIGION IN TOGO What is more devastating, is that to attribute the practice of the Vodoun religion only to Benin and Haiti, would also deny the millions of Africans througout the diaspora their birthright, by negating the more than 51 different ethnic groups (and Spirit pantheons brought) from the surrounding territories of Dahomey, who developed, practiced and brought this tradition to the New World in their blood. Thus, limiting the development of the Vodoun religion to only the Fon of Benin, who themselves are a subgroup of the Ewe (Yeveh), of which more than
