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Presentation of Benin by Fiot S. TONEGNIKES
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Introduction 1- History 2- Geography,
demography and climate 3- Politics 4- Economy
and Agriculture 5- Cultures 6- Benin food
Conclusion

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Introduction
Benin, in long form the Republic of Benin is a
country of Western Africa which covers a surface
of 114 763 km 2 and extends on 670 km, of the
Niger river in north at the Atlantic coast in the
south. Benin account approximately 9 300 000
inhabitants in 2010. The country belongs to the
CEDEAO (and many others union as UEMOA, UA etc).
It has like neighbors Togo in the west, Nigeria
in the east and Niger and Burkina Faso in north.
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Benin reached independence supplements the 1 er
August 1960 under the denomination of Republic
of Dahomey. At the end of the years 1980
serious economic difficulties lead at the end of
the regime Benin starts a process of transition
democratic and, in 1990, adopts a new
constitution. The country becoming Republic of
the Benin. Called a time the " Latin Disrtrict
of Africa", Benin official language is French and
currency is CFA franc.
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Peace
Hope and Revival
Courage
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1- History
Since 1851, France signed a commercial treaty and
of friendship with Porto-Novo king Toffa 1st,
vassal of king Glélé of Dahomey, which reigned of
1858 to 1889. By the treaties of 1868 and 1878,
the area of Cotonou, located between Ouidah,
Portuguese counter, and Porto-Novo, was yielded
to France. One of the most mythical kings of
the kingdom of Dahomey, very noble king Béhanzin
(having for emblème the shark) attacked in 1890
the French peoples in Cotonou, kept 73 days
French peoples in hostages, then besieged other
porto-noviens villages protected by French
peoples. It stated even with the French peoples
to leave him quiet, defying proudly " If you
want the war, I am ready ".
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Béhanzin give itself up to the french peoples in
the way to stop the massacre of its people and
was captured January 1894 then off-set in
Martinique. The French institutions were
gathered within the colony of Dahomey. In North,
the bariba kingdom of Nikki, who had reached his
apogee at the xviiie century before running up
against the expansionnism of the Nigerian kingdom
of Ilorin, opposed a sharp resistance to French
colonization. In 1899, Dahomey integrated
French Western Africa (AOF) within the French
colonial Empire. The borders were established by
mutual agreement with the United Kingdom (fixed
then at Nigeria) and with Germany (presents then
at Togo). After the First World War, schooling
takes much importance, in particular thanks to
the religious missions, and develops especially
in the south which will become one of the
principal political and intellectual hearths of
the AOF. .
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It is at that time, many political parties were
founded, while developed a press of opposition to
the colonial system. Rejoined in free France
during the Second World war, Dahomey became an
autonomous State within the French Community in
1958. The country reached independence on August
1, 1960 and entered, the next month, in the
United Nations, under the name of République of
Dahomey. After independence the first 12 years
marked of state blows and a division of
capacities between the intellectuals elites.
People's Republic of Benin 1975 Marxist-Leninist
until 90 (under PR. Mathieu Kerekou) Revival
national conference and constitution of December
11, 1990. .
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2- Geography, demography and climate

• Togo in the West, Nigeria in the East, Niger and
  Burkina Faso in North, Atlantic Ocean in the
  South
• Relief of the whole of the broken country not
  very.
• North made up of savannas and semi-arid
  mountains and south made up of a low coastal
  plain strewn with marshes, lakes and lagoons.
• hot and wet Climate, with two rain seasons
  (from April at July and September to November).

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3- Politique

• Mode presidential with two (2) non renewable
  mandate.
• current President Boni Yayi (60 years old)
• Institutions of the Republic Government,
  National Assembly, constitutional Court, High
  Authority of Audio-visual and Communication, High
  Court of Justice.
• Multipartisme approximately 150 political
  parties and movements among which the most
  significant are PDR, RB, FCBE, Force Clé, PSD,
  MADEP.

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4- Economy Agriculture

• Benin is a country with the poor basement, which
  primary resources are its port and its
  agriculture. Strategic gate, Benin gives access
  to a market of 200 million consumers, mainly
  anglophone and French-speaking. Benin is also a
  cotton producer country, activity having had
  very large problems these last years, but also of
  corn, manioc, sorghum, millet and palm oil.

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• On the 4,8 million hectares of arable land that
  the Benin has, only 1 million is cultivated each
  year . In spite of that, agriculture occupies a
  dominating place in the beninese economy and
  plays an essential role in the process of
  economic and social development.
• The agricultural production is strongly dependent
  on the natural factors, grounds and pluviometry.
• The most significant food productions are the
  corn, millet, sorghum, the manioc, the yam and
  bean.
• 95 of beninese economy is informel
• inflation rate 1,3 in 2007
• Indice de pauvreté est 28,3 en 2010

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5- Cultures

• World Patrimoine Guèlèdè (yorouba religious
  mask) royal palates of Abomey
• Places of interest Royal palates of Allada,
  (Abomey, porto -Novo, Kétou, Nikki), Temple of
  the Pythons, Road of the slaves, lakecity of
  Ganvié, Museums, zoological gardens W, Zangbeto
  (religious mask night caretaker) etc.
• Arts Letters Ecriture (Florent Couao-Zotti,
  Olympe Bêly Quenum, Jean Pliya,)
• Music Tchinck, Soyoyo, Zekede, Kaka, Massè
  Gohoun, Akonhoun,Zinli

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Royal palate of Abomey
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Marina hotel
National Emblem
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6- Benin Food
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Friedplantain brochettes Accassa

• Friedplantain rice chicken

Grind yam sheep meat peanut sauce
Fried potatoes chicken
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Conclusion
Because we swore never again not to humiliate the
intelligence, because the chains are broken and
that we definitively conquered the right to speak
in the name of Africa, and about fundamental
freedoms of the men and the women of this
continent, because we enter from now on as a
major partner, in a major world, because the
night was dissipated and that the new paddle
radiates let's work friends! and together we
will overcame fate.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR PLEASANT ATTENTION!
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