The project began, Opara says, "from a conversation with a friend who was a traditional Christian and, like many Christians, thought that Yorùbá was a bad religion like voodoo.
No. She'll be spending her Saturdays in the traditional manner, angrily jabbing pins into a high-trousered voodoo doll.
"We were inspired by voodoo, these Haitian rhythms.
There are no soliloquies on the pain of letting go of your children or the deadweight crunch of realising you've valued all the wrong things for your first seven decades, but Silverville's slow teasing-out of life stories worked like voodoo; it got me in the gut.
Phrenology, best described as a pseudo or even voodoo science "of the mind", had created its own prolific market for the body parts – especially heads – of Australian and other indigenous people since the late 18th century.
There is a comical asymmetry between his efforts and theirs, but also something mysterious, as if his were made for a voodoo dollhouse.
And many Japanese households feel squeezed because wages are not keeping pace with prices.Was Abenomics, then, all voodoo?
Sorry to say, this is voodoo economics at its worst.
Vodun is the name scholars give to the African religious cult originating on the Slave Coast, which was exported under the name voodoo to the plantations of Haiti, Cuba, Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas, and is still practised today.In this glass-and-steel exhibition space there is nothing of a musty museum of ethnological curiosities.
The more alarmist describe Nigerian directors and producers as voodoo priests casting malign spells over audiences in other countries.
