For the second year in a row, the city of Ouidah in Benin is playing host to Vodun Days - a celebration of the region's long spiritual traditions. France 24's correspondent Lilaafa Amouzou visited the ...

During the festive season, a community in the West African state confers titles to wealthy men in search of prestige.

On Thursday, the Monarch, Oba Ewuare Il, hosted the age-long Igue traditional wrestling competition, as part of activities to ...

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II (CFR), on Friday, returned the Igue traditional wrestling competition after eight years on the ...

Oba Ewuare II rewarded winners and contestants in the competition, held sandy ringside in Oba Palace in Benin City on Boxing Day ... traditional wrestling began Centuries ago in the ancient City of ...

Thus, it was in an ideal trading hub location. Alexander employed an architect from Rhodes, Dinocrates to build his new jewel city. The ancient city’s area covered about nine miles with about four ...

But when Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed - a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from ...

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"The wooden components of the Potala Palace are like the bones of the human body and the replacement of the damaged wood has largely helped stabilize the ancient architecture," said Donden Tsering ...

the city of Girsu was also one of the first settlements ever established. The palace and temple were discovered by a team headed by Dr. Sebastien Rey, a curator at the British Museum and an expert on ...