Ouidah I is an arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of...
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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)...
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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...
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Arrondissements of Benin (section Ouidah)
Djégbadji, Gakpè, Ouakpé-Daho, Ouidah I, Ouidah II, Ouidah III, Ouidah IV, Pahou, Savi Ahomey-Lokpo, Dékanmey, Ganvié I, Ganvié II, Houédo-Aguékon, Sô-Ava...
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Oryol i Reshka (Russian: Орёл и Решка; Ukrainian: Орел і Решка, romanized: Orel i Reshka, lit. 'Heads and Tails') is a Russian-language Ukrainian travel...
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Bruce Chatwin (section Ouidah and the Black Hill)
Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) On the Black Hill (1982) Patagonia Revisited, with Paul Theroux (1985) The Songlines (1987) Utz (1988) What Am I Doing Here (1989)...
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lovordas: "Kommer bli en sensation i Allsvenskan"". Fotbolldirekt.se. Retrieved 15 May 2024. "Coton Sport Ouidah vs. ASEC Mimosas 0 – 0". Soccerway....
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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...
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Togoland (section World War I occupation and beyond)
Consul Heinrich Ludwig Randad Jr., resident agent of the firm C. Goedelts at Ouidah, was appointed as the first commissioner for the territory. In 1899, Germany...
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individuals, likely more than half, were embarked from the beach south of Ouidah, which lacked formal port facilities. The other primary port from which...
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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...
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genus, and was originally named from the city of Ouidah in Benin. Nowadays the name whydah (i.e. Ouidah) is however applied to the long-tailed species of...
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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...
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for slaves. Ports that exported these enslaved people from Africa include Ouidah, Lagos, Aného (Little Popo), Grand-Popo, Agoué, Jakin, Porto-Novo, and Badagry...
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had attacked their home. The Dahomeyans transported their prisoners to Ouidah, a coastal port for slave trading. Captain William Foster of the Clotilda...
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fish-sell-agent s/he PERF buy crab two "The fishmonger, she bought two crabs." In Ouidah, a rising or falling tone is realized as a mid tone. For example, mǐ 'we...
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and traders to West African coasts. These memoirs mention such cities as Ouidah and Abomey. Among the most circulated texts are those of Archibald Dalzel...
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In Brown, George Williams (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. I (1000–1700) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. "Annapolis Royal Historic...
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Yoruba and Tado peoples in the center and south of the nation. The town of Ouidah on the central coast is the spiritual center of Beninese Vodun or Voodoo...
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their empire, Akwamu extended 400 kilometres (250 mi) along the coast from Ouidah, Benin in the East to Winneba, Ghana, in the West. The Akwamu are one of...
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he was the true heir to the throne. Consequently, Kosoko was banished to Ouidah. During Oluwole's reign, Madam Tinubu remarried one Yesufu Bada, alias Obadina...
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Algeria Emirate of Abdelkader Kingdom of Kongo Kingdom of Dahomey Kingdom of Ouidah Kingdom of Porto-Novo Mossi Kingdoms Kingdom of Burundi German East Africa...
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served under Moody) for a time. In 1720, they attacked the slaver port of Ouidah, Kingdom of Whydah (on the coast of what is now Benin), reducing the local...
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Vodun art (section Ouidah festival)
traditional Vodun deities and used as the basis for murals in Vodun temples. The Ouidah '92 festival, held in Benin in 1993, celebrated the removal of restrictions...
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Angola, Ouidah, and Calabar; In 1865, the amount of slaves transported out of Badagry was 800, while at Porto Novo, the figure was 1,200, and at Ouidah, up...
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Angélique Kidjo (category People from Ouidah)
and vocalese. Kidjo was born in Ouidah, French Dahomey, in what is now Benin. Her father is from the Fon people of Ouidah and her mother from the Yoruba...
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Colonial Africa (section World War I)
São Tomé Island Príncipe Island Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá (now Ouidah, in Benin) Spain Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) Río de Oro Saguia el-Hamra...
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of Cotonou, which had been ceded to them by a Dahomey representative in Ouidah, increasing its forces with French Senegalese and Gabonese soldiers, and...
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work was exhibited at the "Ouidah '92" festival, which celebrated Vodun art from Benin and the African Diaspora in Ouidah, Benin in February 1993. Duval-Carrié...
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its existence, and to this day details are unclear. An artillery camp at Ouidah was the location of another military uprising on 28 January 1972. The president...
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