Voodoo dances, rituals wow tourists at Benin festival
PULCHERIE ADJOHA and SERAPHIN ZOUNYEKPE ON Benin’s national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes
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Benin holds election set to test democracy
PULCHERIE ADJOHA VOTERS in Benin went to the polls for a parliamentary election seen as a test of democracy as
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Benin is building a theme park to remember slavery – is history up for sale?
THE Marina Project is a vast memorial and tourist complex under construction in Ouidah, a coastal town in the Republic
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Cotton exporter Benin developing home-grown textile industry
PULCHERIE ADJOHA ON a large factory floor in southwestern Benin, dozens of young people cut, stitch and assemble cotton shirts
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The Woman King is more than an action movie – it shines a light on the women warriors of Benin
THE Woman King is a big-budget Hollywood movie that has been anticipated since 2018 when US star Viola Davis was
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Benin says in talks with Rwanda over logistical aid to counter Islamist threat
RWANDA may provide logistical support to help Benin tackle a worsening Islamist insurgency that is threatening parts of the West
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Benin celebrates its women ‘Amazones’ in powerful reminder of a female military tradition
THE unveiling of the continent’s second-highest statue honours its Minos, soldiers in a women-only regiment that grew the Kingdom of Dahomey into a regional power and helped defend it from colonial aggression.
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Nearly 800 years later, the fires of the Benin Bronze casters still blaze
FOR bronze caster, Alex Agbonmwenre, the return of the Benin Bronzes is about far more than the return of looted artefacts. It is also a reminder that the craft, which found a patron in Benin 800 years ago, has continued through an unbroken lineage of master craftsmen, ever since. And those master craftsmen can be found today, in Igun Street, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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‘A testimony that we existed’: Benin receives looted art
TWENTY-SIX works of art seized by French colonial soldiers in 1892 returned to Benin, a landmark in the long fight
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Nigerian Yoruba activist detained in Benin
A Nigerian activist accused by the authorities of plotting a violent insurrection has been detained in neighbouring Benin and is
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