Benin
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| Capital | Porto-Novo |
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| Population | 11. 18 million (2017) |
| Presidents | Patrice Talon |
| Currencies | CFA franc, West African CFA franc |
| Official language | French |
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| ID | 644973 |
About Benin
Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, is a birthplace of the vodun (or “voodoo”) religion and home to the former Dahomey Kingdom from circa 1600–1900. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom's past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions.
Why slave descendants want the Benin Bronzes to stay in US
... A group of African Americans has filed a lawsuit to stop the return of some Benin Bronzes from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC to Nigeria...
Benin Bronzes: 'My great-grandfather sculpted the looted treasures'
...On the bustling streets of Nigeria s Benin City, residents cannot wait to get their Bronzes back - for them their return symbolises reparations for some of the wrongs committed by British troops during the colonial era...
