In the continent where all human life began, rituals are strange, grueling and deeply spiritual. Priest and writer Peter Owen Jones witnesses a Voodoo ceremony in Benin that questions his own deeply ...

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and beholder- Aldous Huxley. It is safe to say that whatever fashion or beauty trend is in vogue now has a history of existence, and as such, ...

Introduction: ritual journeys, dancing histories, enacting bodies, and spirits / Dannabang Kuwabong -- Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of ...