Voodoo powers are based on metaphysics, applied science and the paranormal.
Here is the ritual fire dance if the N GHana Dagomba in honour of a dead black smith.
Anyone else would have suffered 3rd degree burns within seconds.
People with such superhuman abilities also have the power to hex or curse and were abilities of hyenas/leopards and lions.
Trouble is 90% of the time these abilities are misused for pure low level F'ERY. Jealousy, envy and hate are the main motivations for occult powers: its very rarely about,"I know; let's build our very own water treatment plant/ hospital/ irrigation system."
Also the entities channelled to perform these supernatural feats are EXTREMELY malevolent and love to cause illness, death and lifelong retardation in the practitioners kids. You can be protected to an extent based on your own abilities to call the entities or by your bloodline but LEAVE. THIS. ISHYT. ALONE. BREHS
This kind of ishyt is rooted in a mindstate rooted in negativity: I did a deep dive and discovered some extremely pertinent facts. There was a low level intensity conflict within the wider Northern region in the 90s that still hasn't completely died down. It never approached open BH type warfare but still displaced 200 k+.
"Konkomba–Nanumba conflict (also known as the
Guinea fowl war) was a tribal war in
Northern Ghana in 1994. It was fought between the
Konkomba, Nawuri, Nchumuru, and Basare tribes, versus the
Nanumba, Dagomba and Gonja tribes on the other side. The basis of the war were tribal claims over land ownership.
[1][2]
At least 1000 and as many as 2000 people were killed during the conflict, while 150,000 people were displaced as part of the dispute.
[3] Some of the displaced individuals fled to
Togo.
[3] The
Rawlings government was able to slow the conflict by pouring hot water on them during the fight, eventually leading to much of the conflict being resolved towards the end of 2015.
[3]"
Konkomba–Nanumba conflict - Wikipedia
I still believe Atlantic Slave Trade numbers are HUGELY EXAGGERATED but it seems the many Black Americans and Caribs sold by the Asante from the Coast originated here.
"Some of the slaves given to Asante as tribute or in payment of the debt (Dagbon) were sold into slavery abroad. . . . it was in the mid-eighteenth century that the records of European companies on the coast began noting the presence of donkors or people of Northern origin among the slaves brought down to the forts and castles for sale. Thereafter, slaves sent to the coast from Asante invariably included men, women and children from Northern Ghana.
29 On a conservative estimate, it can be said that over half a million people or more from Northern Ghana were sold into slavery in the period 1732 to 1897 while thousands of others died or were killed in the slave raids."
Dagomba
This firedance, a direct outgrowth of voodoo is itself an effect of the multigenerational effects of slave trading. Without going into a term paper,imo this occult behaviour may be a karmic cost the slave raiders descendants are now paying.