Word: dahomey
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...fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia, Upper Volta, Chad, Dahomey, Mali, Gabon...
...DAHOMEY (F.) Pop.: 1,934,000. Size: 44,695 sq. mi. Literacy: 20%. School attendance: 35%. College graduates: More than 100. Dahomey has sent many civil servants to neighboring countries. In wild north, tribes still emulate King Dan. Dahomey means literally "belly of Dan," after 17th century ruler who devoured victims...
...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, the two Congos, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Mau ritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo and Upper Volta...