Welcome to the first Africa Edition of the InSagne podcast, as this week Sébastien gets the chance to interview Mr. Kwassi Akpladokou. Mr. Akpladokou is the director of the Finnish-African cultural center Villa Karo in the village of Grand-Popo, Benin, West Africa. Kwassi and Sébastien discuss the issues and barriers of politics and development in West Africa, as well as the history of slave trade in Benin. Kwassi tells a brief description of his life story and how through labor camps in Togo he finally landed back in his birthplace Grand-Popo and became and influential figure in the community. Kwassi also clarifies the essence of Voodoo, the religion that originated in Benin, but which has later been given a misleading image by the westerners.