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Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants
A lot of the people reminded me of my grandparents, the way they wore their headscarves, their mannerisms, their mentality,” ...
Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade
Benin is not the first country to grant citizenship to descendants of slaves. Earlier this month, Ghana naturalized 524 ...
As Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants, it reckons with its own history in the trade
Benin is not the first country to grant citizenship to descendants of slaves. Earlier this month, Ghana naturalized 524 ...
Yahoo5d
Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade
He had never been to West Africa before ... It originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — in the south of present-day Benin — and revolves around the worship of spirits and ancestors through ...
Philadelphia Tribune4d
Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade
DAKAR, Senegal — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel agent ...
Restitution, wrangling and renewal in Benin
The soldiers, disappointed not to find any of the kingdom’s legendary treasure, raised a French flag and drank Béhanzin’s gin ...
BBC2d
What was precolonial West Africa like?
These West African kingdoms and empires developed ... They created centres of learning and culture at Timbuktu and Djenné. The Kingdom of Benin was founded by the Edo people.
Gladiator II: a historian on the real north African kingdom of Numidia – and the men who ruled it
Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west of Libya.
The Independent6d
As Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants, it reckons with its own history in the trade
He had never been to West Africa before ... It originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — in the south of present-day Benin — and revolves around the worship of spirits and ancestors through ...
Descendants of slaves given citizenship status in Benin
Benin has become the latest African nation to try to atone for its past with a new law granting citizenship to those who can ...
The Conversation3d
Gladiator II: a historian on the real north African kingdom of Numidia – and the men who ruled it
Gladiator II opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African ... vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west ...