IMF and WB are programmed to promote harmful indebtedness of UDCs, not to alleviate poverty. Their loans are extremely ...

In western Africa, different communities practice the religion of Voodoo, a belief system based on the idea that their ...

In a groundbreaking move, Benin has taken significant steps to address its historical involvement in the transatlantic slave ...

A lot of the people reminded me of my grandparents, the way they wore their headscarves, their mannerisms, their mentality,” ...

Benin's citizenship law carries added significance, in part because of the role it played in the slave trade as one of the ...

And for hundreds of years, we were sold into slavery as part of a war, or forcibly stolen from our homes, traded for goods that had come from Europe. Then we were transported thousands of miles ...

5, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) In this Jan. 29, 2019 file photo, the flags of the nations of Benin and Togo, the west ...

In this Jan. 29, 2019 file photo, the flags of the nations of Benin and Togo, the west African homes of the survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, remain on display on a monument at what was the ...

But Benin’s citizenship law carries added significance in part because of the role it played in the slave trade as one of the ...

PHOTOS: Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own ... a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo and part of modern-day Nigeria, said Ana Lucia Araujo, a professor ...