Ouidah (English: /ˈwiːdə/; French: [wi.da]) or Whydah (/ˈhwɪdə, -ɔː/; Ouidah, Juida, and Juda by the French; Ajudá by the Portuguese; and Fida by the Dutch)...

The Door of No Return is a memorial arch in Ouidah, Benin. The concrete and bronze arch, which stands on the beach, is a memorial to the enslaved Africans...

The Viceroy of Ouidah is a novel published in 1980 by Bruce Chatwin, a British author. Chatwin's novel portrays the life of a fictional slave trader named...

Ouidah I is an arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of...

in old literature as; Hueda, Whidah, Ajuda, Ouidah, Whidaw, Juida, and Juda (Yoruba: Igelefe; French: Ouidah) was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa...

Ouidah II is an arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of...

The Ouidah Museum of History (French: Musée d'histoire de Ouidah) is an historical museum in Ouidah, Benin. Official site 6°21′32″N 2°05′25″E / 6.358903°N...

Coton Football Club, is a Beninese professional football club based in Ouidah, that competes in the Benin Premier League. The club, originally founded...

Viceroy of Ouidah. This book was published in 1980, and Werner Herzog's film Cobra Verde (1987) is based on it. Although The Viceroy of Ouidah received...

The Saint-Gall de Ouidah Major Seminary (French: Grand Séminaire Saint-Gall de Ouidah) is a Roman Catholic Seminary in Ouidah, a Voodoo centre in the...

Ouidah IV is an arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of...

Ouidah III is an arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune...

Territory located in present-day Benin. English: Whydah; French: Ouidah (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) http://www.rulers.org/benitrad...

Baptista de Ajudá (in English: Fort St. John the Baptist of Ouidah) is a small restored fort in Ouidah, Benin. Built in 1721, it was the last of three European...

824 Djougou - 94,773 Bohicon - 93,744 Kandi - 56,043 Natitingou - 53,284 Ouidah - 47,616 Lokossa - 47,247 Abomey Abomey-Calavi Adja-Ouere Adjarra Adjohoun...

Apostolic Vicariate of Dahomey 13 May 1948: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Ouidah 14 September 1955: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cotonou The seat...

2017 nonfiction children's book Ouidah, city and colonial fort in present Benin Kingdom of Whydah, which included Ouidah but was headquartered in Savi This...

Cobra Verde Drama Werner Herzog Klaus Kinski  West Germany The Viceroy of Ouidah Bruce Chatwin 1993 Alex Haley's Queen (TV series) Historical drama John...

are competing claimants to the title and it is little recognised outside Ouidah. Vodun practitioners believe that many natural materials contain supernatural...

are now part of those countries, and went on to become the "chachá" of Ouidah (the slave trading hub for the region), a title that conferred no official...

depicted as a rainbow. Damballa originated in the city of Wedo (Whydah or Ouidah) in modern-day Benin. Damballa is said to be the sky father and the primordial...

final collaboration. Based upon Bruce Chatwin's 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, the film depicts the life of a fictional slave trader who travels to the...

serves as Chacha IX, the patriarch of the aristocratic De Souza family of Ouidah. "An African Country Reckons With Its History Of Selling Slaves". washingtonpost...

individuals, likely more than half, were embarked from the beach south of Ouidah, which lacked formal port facilities. The other primary port from which...

for slaves. Ports that exported these enslaved people from Africa include Ouidah, Lagos, Aného (Little Popo), Grand-Popo, Agoué, Jakin, Porto-Novo, and Badagry...

Its founder, Francisco Felix de Sousa, was the Brazilian-born viceroy of Ouidah in the Kingdom of Dahomey. After immigrating from Bahia in Brazil to coastal...

Dahomey, and King Behanzin was exiled to Algeria. The Portuguese fort at Ouidah was destroyed by the army of Dahomey in 1743 during its conquest of the...

whereabouts of the ERC's refugees. Hotel Splendide concierges and brothers from Ouidah, Paul and Petit, start a resistance cell. Albert is jealous that Mary Jayne...

Koffi Olomide performing at the Fête du Vodoun in Ouidah, Benin, as part of the festival's folkloric entertainment...

the Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey was changed to Vicariate Apostolic of Ouidah and the Prefecture Apostolic of Parakou was erected from part of the Prefecture...