Benin’s President, Patrice Talon, passed a law in September 2024 that gives citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade, part of an attempt by the country to reckon with ...

The Benin Kingdom stole our ancestors and sold them to European slave traders for more than 300 years, producing as many as 8,000 of these brass treasures — laundered slave trade profits.

Zinsou, who lives between Paris and Benin and whose father’s family can trace its roots back to 1860 in Ouidah (her father was Benin’s prime minister in 2015-16), has spent much of the past ...