Presentation of Benin Presentation of Benin by:by:

Fiot S. TONEGNIKESFiot S. TONEGNIKES

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IntroductionIntroduction

1- History 1- History

2- Geography, demography and climate2- Geography, demography and climate

3- Politics3- Politics

4- Economy and Agriculture4- Economy and Agriculture

5- Cultures5- Cultures

6- Benin food6- Benin food

Conclusion Conclusion

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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.

IntroductionIntroduction

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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

Courage

Peace

BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONEBENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY1- History1- 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 ". SONANGNONSONANGNON

BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONEBENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRYBéhanzin 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. .

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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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• 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- Politique3- 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 Audio-visual 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 & Agriculture4- 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 French-speaking. 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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BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONEBENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY 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 Indice de pauvreté est 28,3 % en 2010

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5- Cultures5- 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,ZinliSONANGNONSONANGNON

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Royal palate of Abomey

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BENIN, PAYS FRANCOPHONEBENIN, FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY National Emblem Marina hotel

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6- Benin Food

Friedplantain & rice & chicken

Friedplantain & brochettes &

Accassa

Fried potatoes & chicken

Grind yam & sheep meat & peanut sauce

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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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