Word: dahomey
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...masters under the U.N.'s aegis, without the often salutary experience of having to fight for their freedom. Such countries are apt to be based on arbitrary old colonial boundaries. They are either so small that they have no independent viability, as in the case of Chad or Dahomey or Upper Volta, or else so large and composed of such disparate tribes that they have no common sense of nationhood, as in the case of Nigeria...
...scene from an underground movie, perhaps? Nothing like it. Guinness, Taylor and Richard Burton were merely taking a booze break from the filming of Graham Greene's psychological thriller The Comedians, which they are shooting in Cotonou, principal city in the small West African nation of Dahomey. If Guinness' bar attire (left over from a just-finished scene) seemed a little farther out than usual-well, Dahomey itself may be farther out than the location of any movie since Nanook of the North. Financial Frankness. Barred from the film's proper location of Haiti because...
...Dahomey, a running feud between the leaders of the nation's three main tribal groups had brought down two governments in three years. "I am taking over because of the incapacity of the politicians to govern," said Colonel Christophe Soglo when he brought down the third...
...Communists. But not for ideological reasons; in Ghana, they despise Marxism only because it was the creed of the despised Nkrumah. The soldiers are not necessarily "conservatives." Nevertheless, they have all been eager to get on good terms with the West; in Ghana, the Central African Republic and Dahomey, they have sent home large delegations of Chinese and Russians...
...palace in Kigali. Periodically he sends a minister driving off to neighboring Uganda to find out what is happening in the world. Rwanda is, however, progressing; until recently, it had only a barter economy based on cows. National pride also engenders pretensions as well as problems. Impoverished Dahomey boasts a $6,000,000 Presidential residence that is larger than Buckingham Palace. Mauritania has a Directorate of Forests and Waters, though it has no forests and precious little water. Upper Volta refers to its single quarter-mile of dual highway as the Champs Elys...