Ewuare rebuilt the capital of the kingdom, Edo City, which is present-day Benin City. A wall was built around the capital and included moats for increased protection. The wall took decades to ...

Ewuare rebuilt the capital of the kingdom, Edo City, which is present-day Benin City. A wall was built around the capital and included moats for increased protection. The wall took decades to ...

Iconic screen presence Shirley Maclaine joins to reflect on her new book “The Wall Of Life: Pictures and Stories from this ...

Mati Diop speaks on her documentary “Dahomey,” which explores the concept of restitution through the story of 26 artifacts ...

Present-day Benin, from where more than a million people were shipped to the Americas at the height of the slave trade, has approved a law that makes their descendants eligible for citizenship in ...

They’re cordoned off behind a concrete wall in hopes they won’t be touched. One of the world’s oldest religions, Voodoo originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — present-day Benin — and is ...

In 1861, he was sent on a mission, recounted in this two-volume work of 1864, to Dahomey (present-day Benin) to urge the king to put a stop to the local slave trade. In Volume 2 Burton discusses the ...

And that may explain why, in the wonderful, knotty new documentary Dahomey, filmmaker Mati Diop shoots the backrooms of Paris ...

including walls, fortresses, passes and beacon towers, have been preserved to the present day. The building methods of the Great Wall in different times and places have been integrally maintained, ...

director Mati Diop imagines the voice of royal treasures looted from West Africa by European colonisers and only recently sent back to their homeland in present-day Benin. She tells RFI she hopes ...

Wantchekon is writing a book on economic development and long-term social mobility. He plans to use data from a sample of three generations of families to document social and economic progress from ...

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