Transcript Benin

BENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY
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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Hope and Revival
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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
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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 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.
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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 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.
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On the 4,8 million hectares of
arable land that the Benin has, only 1
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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
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 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 CouaoZotti, 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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National Emblem
Marina hotel
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Tradiitional achitecture
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6- Benin Food
Friedplantain &
brochettes &
Accassa
Friedplantain &
rice & chicken
Fried potatoes
& chicken
Grind yam &
sheep meat &
peanut sauce
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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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