Celebration of Vodoun culture and traditions
Also known as Vodoun Festival, celebrating traditional Benin religion and culture
Public
Traditional Day
Celebration of Vodoun culture and traditions
On this day in African history
- ? Vodoun Festival or Fête du Vodoun - A public holiday in Benin celebrating the nation's history surrounding the West African religion of Vodoun. · Benin
- 1994 West African heads of state sign a treaty in Dakar establishing the West African Economic and Monetary Union. · Senegal
- 2007 A general strike by trade unions and opposition parties begins in Guinea, in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.Â
- 2015 72 people are killed and 169 others hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in Mozambique.