Italian:
– “Africa occidentale“, by aa.vv., Ed. Guide EDT/Lonely Planet, 2018 (ISBN: 9788859245681)
– “Costa d’Avorio, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Camerun“, by aa.vv., Ed. Guide EDT/Lonely Planet, 2010 (ISBN: 9788860405890)
French:
– “Benin. Country Guide“, by aa.vv., Ed. Petit Futé, 2018 (ISBN: 9791033197652)
English:
– “Benin“, by S. Butler, Ed. Bradt, 2019 (ISBN: 9781784770600)
MAPS
– “Cote d’Ivoire 1:600,000″, by IGN, 2000 (ISBN: 3282118500512)
PHOTO BOOKS
– “Vaudou/Voodoo/Voodoo“, by J. Burton, Ed. 5 Continents Editions, 2007 (ISBN: 9788874394432)
– “Voyages au Bénin“, by G. Rondeau, Ed. L‘Arganier, 2004 (ISBN : 9782912728128)
ESSAYS
Italian:
– “Il vodu in Africa. Metamorfosi di un culto“, by A. Brivio, Ed. Viella, 2013 (ISBN : 9788883349768)
This book, the result of several years of field research, analyses the forms of voodoo still existing in the coastal region of Togo and Bénin, both in rural areas and in the main cities, where voodoo cults play a very important role in local religious life. The voodoo cults play a very important role in local religious life. It is a complex belief system based on intense ritual practice: dances, body movements and decorations, possession phenomena, colours, sounds, smells, sacrificed animals and shrine objects are the essential actors in ritual ceremonies, through which followers build a sense of social belonging and establish a dialogue with the world of the invisible. The voodoo are entities that embody both good and evil, the hope of prosperity and success and a constant threat of death, often expressed through the language of witchcraft. The interlocutors and protagonists of the book are the voodoo practitioners, priests and priestesses, but also the whole of the material culture, whose intense expressive capacity has always attracted and repelled travellers, missionaries, merchants and scholars.
– “Il mercato e la collina. Il sistema politico dei tangba del Benin settentrionale: passato e presente“, by M. Aime , Ed. Il segnalibro, 1997 (ISBN : 9788889617021)
– “Oh, Benin: Taccuino di viaggio nell’Africa subsahariana“, by P. Montini Zimolo , Ed. Independently published, 2018 (ISBN : 9781723898709)
– “Morte in Benin: La scienza incontra il Voodoo“, by P. Neuenschwander, Sapienza, 2020 (ISBN: 9786202760812)
French:
-Vaudou: l’homme, la nature et les dieux: Bénin“, by P. Charlier, Ed PLON, 2020 (ISBN: 9782259280723).
– “Le Bénin (10e-19e siècles): Un puissant et prestigieux empire en Afrique de l’Ouest“, by A. Ba, Ed AB, 2021 (ISBN : 9781777742874)
English:
– “Vodun in Coastal Benin: Unfinished, Open-ended, Global“, by D. Rush, Ed Vanderbilt Univ Pr, 2017 (ISBN: 9780826519085)
ROMANCE
Italian:
– “Le nuvole dell’Atakora“, by M. Aime, Ed. EDT, 2002 (ISBN :978-8870635980)
A market that comes alive every four days and has to be moved because of a cooperation project. A village in the hills of northern Benin, inhabited by men and women who ask to be allowed to live according to their traditions. An anthropologist who ends up becoming the witness of an affair that starts with a misunderstanding and ends up turning into a showdown between the state authorities and the traditional chiefs.
– “African graffiti. ‘Taxi brousse’ e altri racconti dalle strade d‘Africa“, by M. Aime, Ed. Stampa Alternativa, 2012 (ISBN : 9788862223065)
– “Il viceré di Ouidah“ by B. Charwin. Charwin, Ed. Adelphi, 1997 (ISBN : 9788845913266)
– “Non sta al porco dire che l’ovile è sporco“, by F. Couao-Zotti, Ed. 66thand2nd, 2012 (ISBN: 978-8896538210)
French:
– “Ainsi va l’hattéria“, by A. Senou, Ed. Gallimard, 2005 (ISBN : 9782070772490)
English:
– “Idia of the Benin Kingdom“, by E. Aire – A. Shabelnyk, Ed. Our Acestories, 2020 (ISBN : 9781777117924) (children’s book)
LISTENING
– “Assiko!“, by Gangbe Brass Band, Contre Jour, 2008 (jazz and voodoo rhythms)
– “Djin Djin“, by Angélique Kidjo, Razor & Tie, 2007 (afro funk, Grammy Award winning album)
– “Eve“, by Angélique Kidjo, Savoy, 2014 (afro funk, Grammy Award winning album)
– “Sings“, by Angélique Kidjo, 429 Records, 2015 (with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Grammy Award winning album)
– “Celia“, by Angélique Kidjo, Verve, 2020 (afro funk, Grammy Award winning album)
– “Stan Tohon“, by Stan Tohon, EAGLE MONEY BILLIONNAIRE MUSIC GROUPS, 2010 (tchink system)
FILM
French:
– “Sous le signe du vaudou“, by P. Abikanlou, 1974
– “Le Roi est mort en exil“, by R. de Medeiros, 1970
– “Mama aloko”, by E. J. Odoutan, 2002
– “Adù“, by S. Calvo, 2020
DOCUMENTARIES
French:
– “Bénin, une autre Afrique“, by Echappées belles, 2015: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAbD6XG_JZs
English:
– “The Mysterious Voodoo Communities Of Benin“, by Wonder, 2019: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_5iPNjlT3M
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