Age-old storytelling traditions are being revived in the West African nation to teach children and teens timeless African ...

Starting in the medieval period, a series of kingdoms rose and fell in West Africa. The kingdoms of Benin, Mali ... have recorded the history of the kingdom. Sundiata Keita was the first ruler ...

When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of ... a professor of history at Howard University who has spent years researching Benin’s role. The coastal town of Ouidah was one ...

The country then underwent a transition to civilian democratic rule which effectively commenced when Benin ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights [African Charter] in 1986.

When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of ... a professor of history at Howard University who has spent years researching Benin’s role. The coastal town of Ouidah was one ...

For those reasons, the State Department under the provisions of the 2019 Global Fragility Act (GFA) selected five coastal West African states—Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Togo—as a ...