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The African Visa Openness Index (AVOI) 2024 highlights the disparities in visa policies among African countries and their impact on regional integration. Benin, Rwanda, Seychelles, and The Gambia rank highest on the index, offering visa-free access to all Africans. Ghana ranks 5th, while Cape Verde and Nigeria share the 6th position. The three countries have […]
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In Benin, cassava plays a crucial role as a staple food among low-income consumers, causing a high regional demand for gari and other cassava products like tapioca. The Union Communale des Coopératives des Femmes Transformatrices de Manioc de Glazoué (COOP-CA), also known as UCCFTM-Glazoué, is a union composed of 15 women’s village cooperatives with a […]
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Alexandre Sènou Adandé Ethnographic Museum The museum is in Porto-Novo, Benin and was established in 1957 by the Dahomey Institute. It is operated by Alexandre Sènou Adandé, a noted ethnologist, who was chief archivist and librarian at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire of Dakar from 1948 to 1960. The museum features wonderful Yoruba masks and King Toffa’s […]
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Africans still pay far more for telecommunications than western countries as a proportion of their overall income. In Kenya, the darling of African telecom expansion, where many incomes still fall below the World Bank’s poverty baseline of $2.50 per day, it is no different. “Currently poverty stands at 40-42%, which is far cry from the […]
...Richard Dossevi parks his motorcycle taxi on one of the busiest street corners in Cotonou, Benin’s commercial capital, to wait for commuters amid the summer heat. It has been four years since he left his native Togo to seek work opportunities in neighbouring Benin. He found none. So the marketing graduate had no choice but […]
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Travel and Tourism Although the Beninese musical ambassador Angélique Kidjo is the subject of something approaching hero worship in this small West African nation, to experience the country’s fabulous music scene is merely to scratch the surface of its eclectic culture. Marked by influences from the Americas, Europe, and elsewhere in Africa, along with native […]
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