"Brooklyn to Benin: A Vodou Pilgrimage"
Director: Régine Romain
Assistant Director: Olatoundji Fagbenro
Executive Producer: Régine Romain
Producers: WaWaWa Diaspora Centre and Trinity Empire
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"Brooklyn to Benin: A Vodou Pilgrimage" begins with an aerial view of the Route des Esclaves (Slave Road) in Ouidah, which terminates at the Atlantic Ocean. Millions of captured Africans were shipped off into slavery for hundreds of years from this location in Benin (formerly Dahomey), West Africa. In tandem to the shifting gaze from the road to the ocean, a traditional prayer is spoken in Fon, an indigenous language of the region, and is performed by Adissowé, a Vodou high priestess.

As the invocation honors the four corners of the earth and offers reverence to the mysteries of nature, a woman emerges into view. She is a daughter from the other side of the water, who has now returned to the original homeland of her Haitian ancestors. The viewers follow her slow steady walk across Ouidah beach, as she becomes the narrator and offers the historical context of the film, free of the traditional Western bias and stereotypes of Vodou and its practitioners.

The narrator is Régine Romain and she shares her three-year journey documenting the survival of traditional African religion in the Americas. Still photographs of ceremonies and shrines in Brooklyn, NY; southern United States; Central America; and Haiti are displayed. The camera then trails the narrator as she enters a shrine for Aïda Wedo, an ancient Mami Wata divinity amidst the evocative sounds of a Haitian folksong for the exact same deity, affirming that the spirits of Vodou “c’est bon,” are good.

Viewers continue to follow her journey across the sands toward the historic Door of No Return. Each step is a powerful affirmation that she is a descendent of survivors. As the narrator states “honor one’s God fearlessly,” her footsteps fade into a montage of women in traditional dress, singing and dancing in praise and devotion. “Brooklyn to Benin” creates an alternative cinematic experience of Vodou grounded in honor and respect.

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Practice 15 essential Igbo sentences from Week 12 of Igbo Daily Drops — all on screen with correct diacritics, at the pace you need to actually learn. Pause. Repeat. Master each one before moving on.

The Igbo language holds ways of moving through the world — asking for help, offering patience, giving direction — that no translation fully captures. Every sentence in this video is part of an active effort to ensure that language reaches the generation that needs it most. Learning to speak these sentences is not just fluency practice. It is the language coming home.

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The sentences learnt this week are:

Nnọọ nne m — Welcome, my mother.
Banye n'ime ụlọ — Come inside the house.
Ahụ a dị gị mma? — Are you well?
Biko, nụọ mmiri — Please, drink water.
I chọrọ ihe onụnụ? — Do you want a drink?
A chọrọ m tii — I want tea.
Ọjị abịarutela ulọ — Kola has arrived home.
Biko, waara anyị ọjị a — Please, break the kola nut for us.
Onye wetara ọjị, wetara ndụ — He who brings kola, brings life.
Bia rie nri — Come and eat food.
I chọrọ iri nri? — Do you want to eat food?
Anyị nwere ji na ofe — We have yam and soup.
Ije oma — Safe journey.
Kelee ndị nọ n'ụlọ — Greet those at home.
Anyị ga-ahụ ọzọ — We will see again.

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Our cartoon guide, Maazị Nnabe, is not only informative but also entertaining, ensuring that young minds stay engaged and excited throughout the video. With stunning animations and vibrant visuals, this educational adventure will captivate your child's imagination and inspire a love for the ocean and its remarkable inhabitants.

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The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. By the 17th century, the Atlantic had become the center of a brutal new economy - one built on sugar, conquest, finance, and the mass deportation of millions of Africans.

Episode 3: From Sugar to Rebellion explores how European powers turned the Caribbean into a battlefield for sugar. France, England, Spain and the Netherlands fought for control of the islands, where sugar plantations became one of the most profitable - and violent - systems of exploitation in history.

To feed this economy, new slave routes were opened between Africa and the Americas. Banks, insurers, merchants and royal powers helped industrialize the trade, pushing deportations to unprecedented levels. Nearly 7 million Africans were caught in a vast Atlantic system of forced labor, racial violence, and colonial profit.

From the ports of Nantes, Liverpool and Amsterdam to the forts of the Gold Coast, from Caribbean plantations to the rise of slave rebellions and abolitionist voices, this third episode of Slavery Routes reveals how sugar transformed the Atlantic world - and how enslaved people resisted the system built to destroy them.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: Sugar, Slavery, and the Rise of an Atlantic Empire
▷ 01:44 - The Caribbean at the Center of the Slave Routes
▷ 03:35 - The Sugar War: Europe’s Race for Colonial Profit
▷ 05:49 - Caribbean Plantations and the Conquest of Fertile Land
▷ 08:15 - Life and Death on the Sugar Plantations
▷ 10:08 - Banks, Insurance, and the Industrialization of the Slave Trade
▷ 14:20 - Europe’s Slave Ports: Nantes, Liverpool, Amsterdam and Beyond
▷ 16:00 - Louis XIV, Royal Power, and the Expansion of the Slave Trade
▷ 21:25 - The Gold Coast: A Major Source of Captives
▷ 23:40 - Antera Duke and the African Brokers of the Slave Trade
▷ 27:15 - The Middle Passage: Terror, Violence, and Survival at Sea
▷ 29:50 - Race, Dehumanization, and the Atlantic Slave System
▷ 33:05 - Plantation Violence and the Machinery of Exploitation
▷ 35:29 - The Black Codes: Slavery Written Into Law
▷ 37:29 - Slave Resistance, Maroons, and Caribbean Rebellions
▷ 41:44 - Olaudah Equiano and the Rise of Abolitionism in Europe
▷ 50:00 - Epilogue: Slavery, Wealth, and the Atlantic World
▷ 52:03 - Credits

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Original title: Slavery Routes: 1620-1789: From sugar to rebellion
Directed by: Daniel Cattier, Juan Gélas, Fanny Glissant
Produced by: Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France
In co-production with: Kwassa Films, RTBF Télévision Belge, Lx Filmes, RTP, INRAP

© 2018, licensed by Incognita Distribution

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