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Here in Benin's coastal town of Ouidah ... Even less is known about the intra-African slave trade or the involvement of African kingdoms like Dahomey – a situation that the 2022 Netflix ...
Plymouth woman’s fight to get her 92-year-old mother Medicaid highlights the growing problem of short-staffed counties When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her ...
Present-day Benin, from where more than a million ... ancestry back to a victim of the transatlantic slave trade, and who doesn’t hold an African nationality, “may acquire Beninese citizenship ...
“You can’t talk about the island without mentioning the slave trade and the colonial era ... more and more tourists come from within the African continent. Martine, herself hails from Benin and is ...
M ati Diop’s “fantasy-documentary” Dahomey helps us sift through cultural exploitation by Hollywood, Broadway, and other centers of political instruction. Theodor Adorno, of the Marxist Frankfurt ...
Gorée Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off Senegal's coast, stands as a powerful memorial to the transatlantic slave trade while balancing its role as a living community. The island's main site, ...
When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas ...
"You can't talk about the island without mentioning the slave trade and the colonial ... come from within the African continent. Martine, herself hails from Benin and is part of the growing ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade.