In Benin, the government has voted through a law offering nationality to "people with an African ancestor deported as part of the slave trade", with applications due to open in December.
For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant.
Stretching 670km from the Niger River to the Gulf of Guinea, Benin occupies a geo-strategic position in West Africa. Its economic zones (free-trade, industrial, and especially), its road network, and ...
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The main function of the Voodoo Doll in Phasmophobia is forcing the ghost to perform a random interaction. The type of ghost interaction that will trigger is entirely random. but includes ...
Niger’s junta chief has named a new ambassador to Benin in the latest sign of thawing tensions between the two west African neighbours, according to a decree published on Wednesday. Chaibou ...
It has preserved the heritage of a tradition imbued with the presence of Vodun (the voodoo cult). Recovery is the raw material for his work as a ... Account type: Artist, member since 2021 (Country of ...
They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...