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Henry Louis Gates celebrates Candomblé in Bahía

Henry Louis Gates celebrates Candomblé in Bahía

American scholar Henry Louis Gates makes his first trip to Bahía, on Brasil's northeastern Atlantic coast, for the start of Carnaval and celebrations of Candomblé, a Brasilian religious tradition that has retained many rites from the Ifa-based religions of Nigeria's Yoruba and Fon peoples.

Feb, 17