Word: dahomey
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...imagine." The fruits of Marsh's research are on display at Manchester Art Gallery until Jan. 8, and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Jan. 28-April 2). As well as paintings, there are cartoons, ads and photographs of characters like Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a captive from Dahomey who became the Queen's godchild. Many of the images were designed to serve a purpose: to moralize, to glorify the empire or even to sell soap. Some propagandize for or against slavery. François-Auguste Biard's The Slave Trade (1835) is a grand narrative of cruelty...
Another diplomatic thesis was that of Ralph Johnson Bunche, M.A. '34, on "French Administration in Togoland and Dahomey." Bunche later served as undersecretary of the United Nations from...
...writing. The Viceroy of Ouidah finds his jeweler's eye playing over 19th century West Africa. The book is a novelization of the life and death of a footloose Brazilian named Francisco Felix de Souza, who flourished as a slave trader under the protection of the King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes, "had put pictures of Lenin amid the scarlet paraphernalia of the Thunder Pantheon...
...resolution constituted a conscious attempt to equate Zionism with obvious examples of racism. Tiamiou Adjibade, the U.N. delegate from Dahomey, admitted that "in essence Zionism was not related to apartheid", yet in the same breath he linked the two. American publications made the same spurious connection. One letter drew an explicit analogy between South Africa and Israel, terming Jewish fear of anti-semitism a 'red herring...
...could be an unacceptable risk, relatively well-off countries such as Mexico, with its new-found oil riches, and Brazil will continue to find a welcome. Middle-income states such as South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan will also find lending officers receptive. But the traditional weaklings, such as Dahomey, Upper Volta, Turkey, Zaire, Egypt and others, will face a real struggle trying to get additional loans. Says one White House economist: "For the weaker LDCS the choice will be either lowering their living standard or cutting their development programs. Neither choice is any good...