Adjei, Sela Kodjo2020-07-082020-07-082020-07https://hdl.handle.net/10539/29234Arts Research Africa Conference Proceeding 2020How have miseducation and Eurocentric anthropological scholarship actively deluded Africans into perceiving their religion and arts as “inferior” and “barbarous”? Drawing from years of practice-based investigation into the art of the Anlo-Ewe Vodu religion, this paper interrogates and redefines the misleading theories of “fetishism” that have obscured the appreciation of Vodu art.en© 2020 Arts Research Africa. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Copyright of texts: the authors, performers, and panellists Copyright of images: the authors, artists, performers, and panellists.Artistic researchArts researchDecolonisationArts pedagogyPresentation