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🌇 Spätsommer-Abend in der 🌷Gruga – entspannter Spaziergang, Natur genießen & Seele baumeln lassen. GRUGA GEHT IMMER! 🥰
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August 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🔥 Sommerfest in Essen! 🎡 Vom 15.–24.8.2025 warten Feuerwerk, 60+ Fahrgeschäfte, Trödelmarkt & Familientag am 21.8. ✨ Spaß & Nostalgie pur!
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August 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Dein Kurzurlaub vor der Haustür

🌳 Der Essener Stadtwald – seit 1904 grüne Lunge & Erholungsort für die Stadt. Geschichte, Kultur & Natur vereint.

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August 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Dein Kurzurlaub vor der Haustür

🌳 Der Essener Stadtwald – seit 1904 grüne Lunge & Erholungsort für die Stadt. Geschichte, Kultur & Natur vereint.
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Naherholung vor der Haustür! Abendspaziergang im Essener Stadtwald bei Rüttenscheid. Entspannung pur
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August 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Faces of the Voodoo Rainbow exhibition at the SOUL OF AFRICA Museum. Erzuli Freda in a bottle on the Haiti altar.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Faces of the Voodoo Rainbow exhibition at the SOUL OF AFRICA Museum. The Drummer of the Mami Wata Altar.
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August 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Faces of the Voodoo Rainbow exhibition at the SOUL OF AFRICA Museum. The Imam of the Mami Wata Altar.
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August 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Faces of the Voodoo Rainbow exhibition at the SOUL OF AFRICA Museum. Exu Mirim of the Quimbanda religion from Brazil.
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August 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Faces of the Voodoo Rainbow exhibition at the SOUL OF AFRICA Museum. Pombagira Rainha of the Quimbanda religion from Brazil.
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July 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Faces of the Voodoo Rainbow exhibition at the SOUL OF AFRICA Museum. Exu Cobra of the Quimbanda religion from Brazil.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A Kokou ceremony in Benin. Blood spurting from a head wound does not deter a young voodoo initiate in his ecstatic dancing
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July 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A Shango priest offers a chicken for the god of thunder and lightning in Lokossa.
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July 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Newly initiated Shango priests in Lokossa dancing with the head priest with their heavy Achinas on the back.
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July 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A Shango procession in Lokossa past a burial site for people who were struck by lightning.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Gelede dancers in Sakete (Benin) step onto the path to the sacred grove.
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July 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Gelede dancers in Sakete (Benin) step onto the path to the sacred grove.
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July 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Gelede dancers in Sakete (Benin) step onto the path to the sacred grove.
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July 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Ewe people in Ghana. Dressed in honor of the bush spirit.
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July 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Ewe people in Ghana. Dressed in honor of the bush spirit.
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July 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Ewe people in Ghana. Dressed in honor of the bush spirit.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚴‍♂️ Unterwegs mit OB Thomas Kufen!
Wir haben uns gefreut, gemeinsam Rad zu fahren – und die Tour gerne abgesichert. Denn: Das Radwegenetz in #EssenCity ist leider noch nicht dafür ausgelegt, sicher im Alltag unterwegs zu sein.

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June 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yoruba Egungun costumes in the Ancestors and Secret Society exhibition area.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Nganga Briyumba of Madre Canasta, the Congo Nanà Buruku, deity of lagoons, swamps and the moon.

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June 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Ancient putchu guinadji necklace the Kotoko in Cameroon and Chad. Such small bronze equestrian figures were used to protect against witchcraft and mental illness.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM