Benin hopes new festival will highlight proud West African past

AP Worldstream | December 17, 2003| | Copyright

VIRGILE AHISSOU, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-17-2003
Dateline: ABOMEY, Benin
Women in swirling white robes twirl and stomp as traditional drum music echoes through ancient, crumbling palaces _ remnants of a once-proud African empire whose glory Benin is celebrating for the first time, hoping to lure visitors and badly needed tourist cash.

Wednesday marks the final day of this week's six-day festival in Abomey, ex-capital of the Danhome kingdom, a trading empire that flourished in West Africa before the 19th century European colonial conquest. Authorities say it will become an ...

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