photo: Creative Commons / Thomas E. Bowdich
Ashanti Yam Ceremony 1817
photo: Creative Commons / Ukabia
Igbo ukwu bronzes
photo: UNICEF
Two health workers in a mobile health truck check the vaccination cards of the women and children waiting in line in the village of Odolan, in the southwestern state of Oyo, Nigeria
photo: Creative Commons / Dominik Schwarz
Point du Non Retour1
photo: Creative Commons / Oba Eweka
An Oba of Benin from the late 17th century
![Porto-Novo (also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey. The commune covers an area of 110 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.[1][2] Porto-Novo is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion of the country. It is Benin's second largest city, and although the official capital, the city of Cotonou is more important, culturally and politically. The regi](http://web.archive.org./web/20110126090656im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/43/c5/96d389b0511d68f5b5a978737868_grande.jpg "Porto-Novo (also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey. The commune covers an area of 110 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.[1][2] Porto-Novo is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion of the country. It is Benin's second largest city, and although the official capital, the city of Cotonou is more important, culturally and politically. The regi")
photo: Creative Commons / Babylas
Porto-Novo (also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey. The commune covers an area of 110 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.[1][2] Porto-Novo is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion of the country. It is Benin's second largest city, and although the official capital, the city of Cotonou is more important, culturally and politically. The regi
photo: Creative Commons / Itsekhiri,
Bronze plaque of Benin Warriors with ceremonial swords. 16th–18th centuries, Nigeria.
photo: Creative Commons / Unidentified artist
Slaves on a Virginia plantation (The Old Plantation, c. 1790)
![Porto-Novo (also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey. The commune covers an area of 110 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.[1][2] Porto-Novo is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion of the country. It is Benin's second largest city, and although the official capital, the city of Cotonou is more important, culturally and politically. The regi](http://web.archive.org./web/20110126090656im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/43/c5/96d389b0511d68f5b5a978737868_thumb.jpg "Porto-Novo (also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey. The commune covers an area of 110 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.[1][2] Porto-Novo is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion of the country. It is Benin's second largest city, and although the official capital, the city of Cotonou is more important, culturally and politically. The regi")
