InSagne podcast goes Benin!

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.

Hope you enjoy and learn something new!

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