From 1894 until 1960 Dahomey was a part of French West Africa.

As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighboring peoples.

In May 1959, Houphouët-Boigny reinforced his position as a dominant figure in West Africa by leading Côte d ' Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta ( Burkina ), and Dahomey ( Benin ) into the Council of the Entente, a regional organization promoting economic development.

As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighbouring peoples.

Porto-Novo ( also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé ) is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey.

In Dahomey mythology of Benin in West Africa, the serpent that supports everything on its many coils was named Dan.

The subspecies is separated by over and the Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna that divides the forest regions of West Africa.

The Annual customs of Dahomey was the most notorious example, but sacrifices were carried out all along the West African coast and further inland.

He gave a great impetus to French colonial enterprise, especially in West Africa, where he organized the newly acquired colony of Dahomey, and despatched the Liotard mission to the upper Ubangi.

2010: Discovery of a new duiker species ( Bovidae: Cephalophinae ) from the Dahomey Gap, West Africa.

Greenberg ( 1963 ) added the Kru languages of Liberia, the Ghana – Togo Mountain languages which Westermann and Bryan had specifically excluded, and Ijaw of the Niger delta ; West Kwa included the languages from Liberia to Dahomey ( Republic of Benin ), and East Kwa the languages of Nigeria.

French West Africa () was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan ( now Mali ), French Guinea, Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ), Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ), Dahomey ( now Benin ) and Niger.

The Conseil de l ' Entente (" Council of Accord " or " Council of Understanding ") is a West African regional co-operation forum established in May 1959 by Côte d ' Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) and Dahomey ( now Benin ), and joined in 1966 by Togo.

He made his first trip to Africa in the winter of 1959 – 60, visiting the West African countries of Ghana, Niger, and what was then called Dahomey ( now Benin ).

His destinations included Tahiti ( 1933 ); United States, Japan, and China ( 1934 and 1937 ); Italy, Spain, Sudan ( now Mali ), Niger, Upper Volta, Togo and Dahomey ( now Benin, 1935 ); the West Indies ( 1936 ); Mexico ( 1937, 1939, and 1957 ); the Philippines and Indochina ( now Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, 1938 ); Guatemala and Ecuador ( 1939 ); Senegal ( as a conscript, 1940 ); Argentina ( 1941 ), Peru and Bolivia ( 1942 and 1946 ); and finally Brazil ( 1946 ).

Candomblé Jeje is the Candomblé cult that the Vodous of Kingdom of Dahomey brought to the Brazil by enslaved Africans in various regions of West Africa and Central Africa.

Similar divine spirits are also found in the Central and West African traditions from which they derive — the orishas of Yoruba cultures, the nkisi of Bantu ( Kongo ) traditions, and the Vodun of Dahomey ( Benin ), Togo, southern Ghana, and Burkina Faso.

In 1850, Fraser was appointed Consul of Quidah, Dahomey ( now Benin ), West Africa.

In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the portion of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo and Ghana, thus separating the forest zone that covers much of the south of the region into two separate parts.

He travels by sea to Dahomey, West Africa, where he must negotiate with the fearsome King Bossa Ahadee of Dahomey ( played by His Royal Highness Nana Agyefi Kwame II of Nsein ).

This tradition is shared throughout West Africa due to Akan Influence, from Benin / Dahomey ( Fon ) and Togo ( Ewe ), to the Ga, to other West Africans and throughout the African diaspora.

The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful west African state that was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until 1894.

Most of the troops who fought against Dahomey were native African.

African culture thus remained strong among slaves to the end of French rule, in particular the folk-religion of Vodou, which commingled Catholic liturgy and ritual with the beliefs and practices of Guinea, Congo, and Dahomey.

At his death, the Benin Empire extended to Dahomey in the west, to the Niger Delta in the east, along the west African coast, and to the Yoruba towns in the north.

These expeditions were typically carried out by African kingdoms, such as the Oyo empire ( Yoruba ), the Ashanti Empire, the kingdom of Dahomey, and the Aro Confederacy.

The Republic of Benin was the seat of Dahomey, one of the great medieval African kingdoms, governed from the capital, Abomey, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

However, some African groups proved particularly adept and brutal at the practice of enslaving such as Oyo, Benin, Igala, Kaabu, Asanteman, Dahomey, the Aro Confederacy and the Imbangala war bands.

" Dahomey was an African kingdom situated in what is now Benin.

Animal sacrifice is also found in the Cuban religion called Palo, which derives from African religion of the Congo, and in Haitian Vodou, a religion that derives from the Vodou religion of Dahomey.

The two main plots concern the fictional African state of Beninia ( a name reminiscent of the real-life Benin, though that nation in the Bight of Benin was known as the Republic of Dahomey when the book was written ) making a deal with General Technics to take over the management of their country, in a bid to speed up development from third world to first world status.

A Trip to Coontown ( 1898 ) was the first musical comedy entirely produced and performed by African Americans in a Broadway theatre ( largely inspired by the routines of the minstrel shows ), followed by the ragtime-tinged Clorindy the Origin of the Cakewalk ( 1898 ), and the highly successful In Dahomey ( 1902 ).

Haitian Vodou ( also known as Voodoo in the United States ) is a syncretic mixture of Roman Catholic rituals introduced during the French colonial period, African beliefs, with roots in the Yoruba, Kongo and Dahomey mythology, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino Amerindians that once populated the island.

These ports traded in slaves that were supplied by African communities, tribes and kingdoms, including the Alladah and Ouidah, which were later taken over by the Dahomey kingdom.

The Oyo Empire was the most politically important state in the region from the mid-17th to the late 18th century, holding sway not only over most of the other kingdoms in Yorubaland, but also over nearby African states, notably the Fon Kingdom of Dahomey in the contemporary republic of Benin to the west.

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* By decree of President Mathieu Kerekou, the name of the African nation of Dahomey was changed to the People's Republic of Benin.

The production, produced by McVon Hurtig and Harry Seamon, was also the first to star African Americans James Smith and George Sisay, as well as one of the leading comedians in America at that time, Bert Williams. In Dahomey opened on February 18, 1903 at the New York Theater, and ran for 53 performances ( then considered a successful run ).

The story tells of a group of African Americans who, having found a pot of gold, move to Africa and become rulers of Dahomey ( present-day Benin ).

In 1975, the country was renamed " The People's Republic of Benin " after the Bight of Benin ( not the unrelated historical Kingdom of Benin ) since " Benin ," unlike " Dahomey ," was deemed politically neutral for all ethnic groups in the state.

Four thousand Whydahs, for example, were sacrificed when Dahomey conquered the Kingdom of Whydah in 1727.

From Cotonou, the legionnaires marched to seize Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

The Dahomey Kingdom was founded in the early 17th century CE when the Aja people of the Allada kingdom moved northward and settled among the Fon.

In so doing they established the Kingdom of Dahomey, with its capital at Agbome.

Though originally ruled by the Kingdom of Dahomey, in 1851 the French made a treaty with the Dahomean King Ghezo that allowed them to establish a trading post at Cotonou.

In the Asante Confederacy, state-owned slaves built large plantations of oil palm trees, while in the neighbouring Kingdom of Dahomey, King Ghezo passed a law in 1856 forbidding his subjects from cutting down oil palms.

The current president of Benin, Yayi BoniFrom the 17th century till the colonial period, the Kingdom of Dahomey ( whose borders encompassed more than present day Benin ) was ruled by an " Oba ".

Agaja then requested free movement for Dahomey traders from the coastal Kingdom of Whydah, ( modern day Ouidah ), a lucrative coastal kingdom active in the Atlantic slave trade.

Every year in the Kingdom of Dahomey, a huge festival in honor of the ancestors was organized called the annual " customs ".

Following this he attended the Open University in his mid-twenties to study a Foundation Course and then later attended the University of Stirling, gaining a BA in history and a Ph. D. in economic history, with a thesis on the slave trade written as a critique of the Marxist model of historical change, entitled Warrior Aristocrats In Crisis: the political effects of the transition from the slave trade to palm oil commerce in the nineteenth century Kingdom of Dahomey.

* Kingdom of Dahomey Flag ( Ratio 43: 59 )

According to tradition, they were introduced into the Kingdom of Dahomey from nearby lands by its founder King Adja-Tado, on the advice of a bokono ( seer ).

The Dahomey Amazons or Mino were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which lasted until the end of the 19th century.

In February 1850, the Yorktown headed for Ouidah, which was then in the Kingdom of Dahomey.

In 1727 the Kingdom of Whydah was captured by the forces of King Agaja of Dahomey.

In the Asante Confederacy, state-owned slaves built large plantations of oil palm trees, while in the neighbouring Kingdom of Dahomey, King Ghezo passed a law in 1856 forbidding his subjects from cutting down oil palms.

In 1728, the Oyo Empire invaded the Kingdom of Dahomey in a major campaign of its cavalry.