The Marina Project is a vast memorial and tourist complex under construction in Ouidah, a coastal town in the Republic of Benin in West Africa. The country hopes to market itself as a major ...

Benin is an undiscovered paradise in West Africa, a country steeped in culture and colonial history. Sharing land borders with Nigeria, Togo, Niger and Burkina-Faso, it is one of West Africa’s most ...

The figure at the centre of this brass plaque is the oba - the king of Benin in Nigeria. In the background on either side of the oba are two tiny figures, identified as Portuguese traders, ...

A man on a motorcycle rides past a statute in Zomachi Memorial Square in Ouidah, Benin. Photo: AFP As Western cities see statues of slaveholders and colonialists toppled, Benin's coastal town of ...