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Ganvie was founded by the Tofinu tribe, a population of West Africans skilled in fishing, who was known as "watermen" and lived on the coast of Benin before the 17th century.

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 ...

Ganvie’s 3,000 buildings include a post office, a bank, a hospital, a church, and a mosque. The village school is one of the few buildings not on stilts; it’s located on a patch of dry land ...

Lake Nokoué in Benin is home to 80,000 people who live in 42 small stilted villages. The largest of these is Ganvié.

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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Dahomey, Ganvie. Women at shore market. sell fish, buy other foods. Feb.-Mar. 1971. EE. neg.no. VIII-36, 31A." The card was written in 1977-79 by Archives staff using source provided by photographer.

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