BENIN FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY Presentation of Benin by Fiot

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY Presentation of Benin by: Fiot S. TONEGNIKES SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY Introduction 1 - History 2 - Geography, demography and climate 3 - Politics 4 - Economy and Agriculture 5 - Cultures 6 - Benin food Conclusion SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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. SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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. SONANGNON

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BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 1 - History Since 1851, France signed a commercial treaty and of friendship with Porto-Novo king Toffa 1 st, 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 ". SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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. . SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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. . SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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). SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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 Audiovisual 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. SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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 Frenchspeaking. 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. SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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 SONANGNON Indice de pauvreté est 28, 3 % en 2010

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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 SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE Royal palate of Abomey SONANGNON

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BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE National Emblem Marina hotel SONANGNON Tradiitional achitecture

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 6 - Benin Food Friedplantain & rice & chicken Fried potatoes & chicken Friedplantain & brochettes & Accassa Grind yam & sheep meat & peanut sauce SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE 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. SONANGNON

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PLEASANT ATTENTION! SONANGNON