An Assembly of Twenty-One Spirit Nations: The Pan-African Pantheon of Haitian Vodou's African Lwa
Daniels · 2023 · Africa and Its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas, eds. Tunde Adeleke and Arno Sonderegger
Daniels begins from a saying often repeated in Haitian Vodou: the lwa come from twenty-one spirit nations. Those nanchon, the essay holds, register the African diversity present in early colonial Saint-Domingue, an inheritance devotees carried into what they established there.
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An Assembly of Twenty-One Spirit Nations: The Pan-African Pantheon of Haitian Vodou's African Lwa. (2023). Africa and Its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas, eds. Tunde Adeleke and Arno Sonderegger. https://www.academia.edu/104957942/An_Assembly_of_Twenty_One_Spirit_Nations_The_Pan_African_Pantheon_of_Haitian_Vodous_African_Lwa
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