Spirit world: Voodoo makes a comeback in its Benin home Benin holds its annual voodoo festival -- an event that lures an influx of visitors to the capital Porto-Novo and underscores voodoo's comeback in the country of its birth.\\n\\nVoodoo, more often called "vodun" in West Africa, has a hierarchy of deities and tribal spirits of nature and sees revered ancestors living alongside the living. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES