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How the floating village of Ganvie employed socio-ecological aquacultural systems to define their architecture and Urban environment.
This is one of the smaller stilt houses in Ganvie, Benin, where people have lived along the water for centuries. Photo: Iwan Baan After the devastating 2011 tsunami, the Japanese government spent ...
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In this week's Maphead, Ken Jennings explains how one African city was built entirely on stilts—and has remained that way for centuries.
Lake Nokoué in Benin is home to 80,000 people who live in 42 small stilted villages. The largest of these is Ganvié.
The lake village of Ganvié, known as the Venice of West Africa, is home to a population of fishermen. Lake Nokoué, where it sits, is a shallow stretch of water on the outskirts of the Beninois ...
Ganvie – whose restaurants, bars, bungalows and hotels are situated on the water – has come to be known as the "Venice of Africa." Not so long ago, most of the village's 30,000 residents had ...