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		<title>The Myth of “Voodoo”: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2010/01/20/the-myth-of-%e2%80%9cvoodoo%e2%80%9d-a-caribbean-american-response-to-representations-of-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[religiondispatches.org By Dianne Diakité January 20, 2010 Notwithstanding Haiti’s Christian character, the Haitian personality, if there is one, has been nurtured by a Vodou civilization that any responsible treatment of the subject must disentangle from the Western world’s manufactured “voodoo” culture. At a time when increasing numbers of informed audiences in both scholarly and popular <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2010/01/20/the-myth-of-%e2%80%9cvoodoo%e2%80%9d-a-caribbean-american-response-to-representations-of-haiti/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>‘Nigerian leaders don’t love the citizens’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[compassnews.net Nigerian Compass Primate, Church of Aladura Worldwide and President, United Aladura Churches, Pope Rufus Okikiola Ositelu, paid a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Compass on Thursday. During the visit, he fielded questions from a group of the newspaper’s reporters on some burning national and religious issues, including the state of the nation vis-a-vis the <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2010/01/04/%e2%80%98nigerian-leaders-don%e2%80%99t-love-the-citizens%e2%80%99/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba pilgrimage mixes Santeria with Catholic faith</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2009/12/17/cuba-pilgrimage-mixes-santeria-with-catholic-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[uk.reuters.com Dec 17, 2009 By Helen Popper EL RINCON, Cuba (Reuters Life!) &#8211; Some dressed in sackcloth, a few crawling on their hands and knees, thousands of Cubans paid homage on Thursday to a Catholic saint who doubles as a powerful deity in the Afro-Cuban Santeria faith. The Saint Lazarus pilgrimage is one of the <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2009/12/17/cuba-pilgrimage-mixes-santeria-with-catholic-faith/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Obini Batá” a group of Cuban women playing drums</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2009/12/14/%e2%80%9cobini-bata%e2%80%9d-a-group-of-cuban-women-playing-drums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original article Obiní Batá is the only folkloric company on the island made up solely of women. They display their talent through singing, dancing, reciting and…what horror! Playing the hourglass-shaped batá drums! “Obini” means woman in the Yoruba language. Correspondingly, Obiní Batá -a group of Cuban women who are breaking religious and cultural taboos- is <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2009/12/14/%e2%80%9cobini-bata%e2%80%9d-a-group-of-cuban-women-playing-drums/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands Gather for Voodoo Day in Benin</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2006/01/10/thousands-gather-for-voodoo-day-in-benin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Virgile Ahissou Associated Press Writer Thousands gathered on a beach Tuesday to celebrate Benin&#8217;s once-banned Voodoo, slaughtering animals and welcoming revelers from Brazil and the United States, including descendants of slaves who took the religion to the Americas centuries ago. At a ceremony in the southern town of Ouidah, Voodoo high priestess Nagbo Hounon <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2006/01/10/thousands-gather-for-voodoo-day-in-benin/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Officially Sanctions Voodoo, Allowing Practitioners Perform Legal Weddings, Baptisms</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2005/04/10/haiti-officially-sanctions-voodoo-allowing-practitioners-perform-legal-weddings-baptisms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article from World News Network The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Haiti&#8217;s government has officially sanctioned voodoo as a religion, allowing practitioners to begin performing ceremonies from baptisms to marriages with legal authority. Many who practice voodoo praised the move, but said much remains to be done to make up for centuries of ridicule and persecution <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2005/04/10/haiti-officially-sanctions-voodoo-allowing-practitioners-perform-legal-weddings-baptisms/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>El aporte africano a la cultura cubana—Español</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2004/01/21/el-aporte-africano-a-la-cultura-cubana%e2%80%94espanol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[El Nuevo Herald Miguel A. Sirgado msirgado@herald.com Preservar vivos los anales del pueblo cubano y establecer sus antecedentes y vínculos con otros fenómenos históricos de América y el Caribe, es una de las misiones del Centro de Estudios Cubanos y Cubanoamericanos de la Universidad de Miami. Y este mes en el que Estados Unidos celebra <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2004/01/21/el-aporte-africano-a-la-cultura-cubana%e2%80%94espanol/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Havana: Future told in sacrifices, sacred seeds</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2004/01/20/letter-from-havana-future-told-in-sacrifices-sacred-seeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Tribune At the beginning of each year, Afro-Cuban religious leaders gather to forecast the events of the next 12 months, the Tribune&#8217;s Gary Marx finds Gary Marx is the Tribune&#8217;s Havana correspondent HAVANA &#8212; President Bush may be leading all his would-be challengers in the polls, but a prominent Afro-Cuban religious leader says <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2004/01/20/letter-from-havana-future-told-in-sacrifices-sacred-seeds/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Local: Traffic stop turns up pot, animal remains</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2003/12/25/local-traffic-stop-turns-up-pot-animal-remains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article from The Longview News-Journal By John Lynch Lawmen who thought they had seen it all saw something new Monday after a routine traffic stop turned up 12 pounds of marijuana, a pistol and more than $6,000. The discovery resulted in the arrests of two Cuban nationals suspected of being in the country illegally. But <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2003/12/25/local-traffic-stop-turns-up-pot-animal-remains/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Santeria powder making mess at money-laundering trial site</title>
		<link>http://eleda.org/blog/2003/12/16/santeria-powder-making-mess-at-money-laundering-trial-site/</link>
		<comments>http://eleda.org/blog/2003/12/16/santeria-powder-making-mess-at-money-laundering-trial-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilarí Obá</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Miami Herald Posted on Tue, Dec. 16, 2003 By Larry Lebowitz Someone is apparently trying to give defense attorney J.C. Elso a supernatural leg up as his federal money-laundering trial hits the homestretch. Prosecutors complained Monday that their courtroom seats and evidence boxes were covered with voodoo powder in a Santeria ritual. Veteran Assistant <a href='http://eleda.org/blog/2003/12/16/santeria-powder-making-mess-at-money-laundering-trial-site/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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