Benin News News Benin » People: Benin grants citizenship to descendants of enslaved people. U.S. singer Ciara is among the first.
Yvon Detchenou, Benin's Minister of Justice and Legislation, right, presents citizenship documents to singer Ciara at a ceremony in Cotonou, Benin on July 26. [AP/YONHAP] U.S. singer Ciara is one of ...
News Benin » People: Ciara becomes Benin citizen under law for descendants of enslaved people
DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved ...
News Benin » People: In Benin, Voodoo’s birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred
PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AP) — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get ...
News Benin » People: In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred
PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AP) — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get ...