Friday, May 12, 2023

We went to to the Akodessawa “fetish market” in Togo, have to think that the euphemism “fetish” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that phrase. Vodun (voodoo) is apparently still alive and well - the marketplace consists mostly of dead animal heads….very recently dead. This is not some touristy, cynically established place for Westerners to take faux-triumphant, touristy, cynical pictures, sadly, it’s a thriving local enterprise. (and remember those adorable 2 little kids a few posts back - we gave them a couple of chocolates? They were just on the other side of the road from this marketplace, 30-40 feet away). The decapitated animal heads (monkeys are apparently especially integral to the cause) go on forever. Imagine, if you will, what recently-dead animal parts, in the thousands, smell like. Yes, as it turns out, you are correct. Maybe x100.









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