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Custom Benin Togo Ghana Tour 10 days
Festivals
Agbogbo-Za 2026 — September 5 in Notsé, Togo
Evala 2026 — Kabyè rite-of-passage festival, Kara, Togo
Fetu Afahye 2026 — September 5 in Cape Coast, Ghana
Hogbetsotso 2026 — November 7 in Anloga, Ghana
Panafest 2027 — Cape Coast, Ghana, July 25 – August 3
Porto-Novo Mask Festival 2026 — July 25-26, Benin
Vodun Days — Ouidah, January, the Beninese state festival of Vodun
Field Notes
Anloga in November — arriving for Hogbetsotso as a foreign observer
Cape Coast in July — arriving for PANAFEST as a foreign observer
Cape Coast in September — arriving for Fetu Afahye as a foreign observer
Fanon, the camera, and the body at the village ring — visiting Evala
Guèlèdè at UNESCO — what the 2008 inscription said and didn’t say
Houngans, hounsi, vodunon — the working hierarchy of a Vodun convent
Notsé in September — arriving for Agbogbo-Za as a foreign observer
Ouidah on January 10 — arriving for Vodun Days as a foreign observer
Pützstück, Hentschel and the Schutzgebiet — reading the German colonial archive on Notsé
Reading Egungun without an initiation
Saidiya Hartman, the Door of Return, and what PANAFEST asks of the visitor
Sarbah, Casely Hayford, Coe — the Fante intellectual tradition that frames Fetu Afahye
Slave Route of Ouidah — walking memory on the Bight of Benin coast
Spieth, Greene, Nukunya — three ways of writing the Anlo-Ewe memory
The Awala generational chain — Kabyè age classes explained
What Agbogbo-Za commemorates — the Ewe of Notsé and those who stayed
What Fetu Afahye commemorates — the 77 deities of Oguaa and the cleansing of the Fosu Lagoon
What Hogbetsotso commemorates — the Anlo-Ewe departure from Notsé and the long walk south
What PANAFEST and Emancipation Day actually celebrate — a primer for the curious traveler
What Vodun Days actually celebrates — a primer for the curious traveler
Wrestling as ritual, not as sport — reading Evala against the modern gaze
Zangbeto at dusk — a photographer’s notebook from Porto-Novo
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