The concept of Vodun is thousands of years old, born from the ancient peoples of West Afrika. In the 18th century, a Dahomean King, Agaja Trudo, began to consolidate the dieties of various clans and villages of West Afrika to form a comprehensive theological and spiritual system of Vodun. Agaja sought to develop a comprehensive Vodun system to save his kingdom from the crisis (MAAFA) that was devastating West Afrika.

At the same time, in the French colony of Saint Dominique (Haiti) various Afrikan ethinics there developed a comprehensive belief system, Voodoo. Haitian Voodoo recognized the unique ethnic heritages of Afrika, while uniting captive Afrikans around the new reality as a New Afrikan people in the western hemisphere. Voodoo was a motivating force of the Haitian revolution and remains a means of social organization and survival for the Haitian masses today.

Similiar to Haitian Voodoo, New Afrikan Vodun seeks to develop a common system for New Afrikans in the united states, inclusive of the Deities and rites of our Ancestors throughout West Afrika (Evhe/fon, Nago/Yoruba, Akan, Kongo, etc.) Rather than retribalize Afrikans who came to north america through the MAAFA, New Afrikan Vodun seeks to develop a diversified unity of New AFrikan people.




(article from NEW AFRIKAN VISIONS, a newsletter put out by THE NEW AFRIKAN SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, Atlanta Georgia)

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