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DIANE CAMERON IN THE TREE OF NO RETURN

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When I first went to Benin, West Africa in 2004...I was humbled and brought to my knees as I witnessed the "Door of No Return" - its a place in Ouidah, Benin where the captured Africans had to symbolically walk around 3 times in an act of forgetting their homeland, their families and themselves....

"Mode de Pensées" et Belleville fêtent l'Afrique

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  • Author: ZacdelaZup

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Damz'ailée, Iboqueen et Toubab ont organisé MODE DE PENSEES Paris/Ouidah : Défilés et Animations nombreuses rue de la Villette... "Une semaine après la date officielle de la commémoration de l'abolition de l'esclavage, nous avons souhaité mettre à l'honneur la ville de Ouidah au Bénin,...

Ouidah - Route des esclaves

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Tags: benin  esclavage  esclave  ouidah  route 

La route des esclaves à Ouidah

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La route des pêches direction Ouidah

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  • Author: pullin21

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Route pas tip top, avec Dido a longueur de journée...

This is not new

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Tags: ass  black  clothes  dance  food  technology  thighs  thing  think  walking 

walkin' in my room in Ouidah

Voodoofestival Ouidah, Benin 10-01-08

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voodoo festival Ouidah

Voodoofestival Ouidah, Benin 10-01-08

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Men on drums

Ouidah

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  • Author: ouidah62

Tags: adventure  Africa  Benin  culture  destination  events  log  museum  nature  Ouidah  responsible  Togo  travel 

Ouidah used to be one of the major ports of the slave trade, its forts and museums tell its history. Ouidah is a major centre of the Voodoo religion. In the python temple, you can take living snakes in your hands. In the sacred forest you can understand ancient rites. Important Voodoo rites and...

the house of Joy, Ouidah Benin

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This house otherwise known as The House of Joy is a private charity created by women originating from the north of the country in order to provide a shelter and a job to women abandoned by their husbands or girls expelled from their villages. Most women hosted in the house originate from the...

Voodoo festival in Ouidah

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Benin is a peaceful country and a real democracy with free elections. Schools and hospitals are good, but their cost is prohibitive for a large share of the population. Before colonization, the kingdom of Dahomey developed in the southern portion of Benin. Royal palaces, temples and artefacts can...

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