M to modernize transport in Grand-Nokoué and serve up to 360,000 users Project to professionalize informal operators and boost job creation Part of Benin’s $9.7B multimodal transport strategy through ...

Parakou, Benin’s third-largest city, pulses with life in the northern Borgou Department. With over 200,000 residents, it’s a crossroads for trade, connecting farmers from the cotton-rich plains—which ...

The Yaa Ansaa Royal Family, the hereditary custodians of the historic Akwamu Kingdom (also known as Aquambo), are going to ...

From roughly 1600 to 1900, the Kingdom of Dahomey carved out a powerful position in West Africa and a unique place on the ...

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...

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 ...

Below, five African adventures—from the deep jungles of Congo to the museums of Benin—that take you far beyond the savanna.

Crackdown on peaceful labor march and arrest of the union's leadership in Benin draws condemnation.The 2025 International Workers' Day celebrations in Benin were disrupted after the police stormed a ...

The Benin bronzes celebrate practices that persist today: Edo state remains a hub of human trafficking in Africa ... and most continue to erase the slave trade origin from museum exhibits.

The Benin authorities’ recent wave of sanctions against independent ... Director of Reporters Without Borders’ Sub Saharan Africa bureau. A dozen journalists who have worked for Le Patriote are now ...

African tribes were happy trading partners with the Europeans and Arabs in the brutal evil slave trade. David Livingstone ... the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms ...

Founder and leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has urged African countries to shift their focus from Western markets and instead prioritise trade within the continent.