BENIN'S ART OF HISTORY

New African | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

One of the most venerable ancient kingdoms of West Africa can trace its beginnings to the early 13th century when the Fon, a people closely related to the Yoruba, migrated from around the River Niger to settle in the south of what is now the Republic of Benin. They left a remarkable cultural heritage that is still celebrated both in the contemporary arts of Benin and, as Stephen Williams explains, throughout the African Diaspora.

By the middle of the 17th century, under their monarch King Houegbadja, the first palace of the Dahomey kingdom was built at Abomey. Houegbadja was the third king of ...

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