The transatlantic slave trade, spanning four centuries, generated immense wealth for Western nations and played a critical role in the accumulation of capital, reflecting the brutal reality of a ...

While at the festival in the small southern beach town of Ouidah dotted with memorials to the slave trade, he plans to begin ...

It has suffered from a bad press internationally but is an official religion in the West African country of Benin. In the voodoo heartland of Ouidah, the sound of drums fills the air, while men ...

EXCLUSIVE: French screenwriter and director Simon Moutaïrou spent summers as a teenager in his father’s native country of ...

(240823) -- OUIDAH, Aug. 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman walks through Place Chacha in Ouidah, Benin on May 27, 2024. The spherical decorations on the ground represent the slaves who were sold here.

Among the Fon people of the coastal city of Ouidah in Benin, master artists created a distinguished style of altars known as asen. Crafted from forged iron, they comprise a tall rod that supports a ...

Although Cotonou, Benin's economic capital with a population of 2.4 million, is only a few kilometers away and the huge construction site of the coastal Fishing Road brings the rainforest to a ...

France is Benin’s second-largest bilateral donor ... Ms Bachelot-Narquin. They will then move to Ouidah, where they will be on display at the Portuguese fort. Furthermore, the AFD supports the ...

I expanded this project to examine how the survivors of the Clotilda crossing were forcibly removed from Ouidah, Benin and reestablished life for themselves in Africatown near Mobile, Alabama. I also ...

High above Harlem in early August, Yeye Taiwo Lijadu sat surrounded by her collection of sacred objects. Shelves displaying ...

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They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...