Word: benin
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What about the kingdom of Benin, which flourished from 1170 to 1900 in what is now Ghana? The artisans of Benin were celebrated throughout Africa. What about the kingdom of Oyo, 1200-1800, and the mighty Ashantis, 1695-1901? The Ashantis were famed as warriors and hunters...
...what divides us," Chad accused Libya of seizing 45,000 sq. mi. of Chadian territory. Ethiopia charged that it was the victim of a "coordinated conspiracy" of aggression led by Somalia and Sudan. Somalia countered that Ethiopia was in fact an aggressor guilty of "black colonialism," "murder" and "massacres." Benin did not even bother to attend the summit because it blames Gabon for last January's attempted coup against Benin President Mathieu Kerekou. Hoping to cool tempers, Nigeria's head of state, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo, observed that "intra-African quarrels now constitute a real threat to peace...
...Bernardin Gantin, 55, of Benin, pro-president of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission, who becomes one of nine African cardinals...
...belt of influence across the middle of the continent. Now if they can hold on to Somalia and bring Ethiopia into their orbit, they will have hooked a suspender onto the belt. Meanwhile the other gallus is shaping up along the Atlantic coast of Africa, involving Zaire, the Congo, Benin and Guinea-Bissau...
...that sexual variation is somehow either a cause or an evidence of decadent civilization. In fact, free expression of sexual variety has been more commonly in evidence during higher historic eras of cultural expression: in the great age of the Islamic world, in several African civilizations such as Ghana, Benin and Siwan, the Ukiyo period in Japan and, of course, classical Greece, Rome, for example, fell after Christianity (and sexual shame) became dominant in the West...