Benin News Archives

Since graduating from art school a year ago, Mikhael Subotzky has taken his native South Africa and the international art world by storm.

An International Monetary Fund mission visited Cotonou during September 14-28, 2009 to conduct discussions on a program that could be supported by the IMF.

It was the middle of the night, and Perlagie couldn't sleep. The image of Maomai, her 3-month-old baby girl, flashed through her mind every time she closed her eyes.

Romuald Hazoum, Wax Lolo, 2009,Found Objects, Photo by Jonathan Greet, Image Courtesy October Gallery, London.

Boston-based photographer Claire Beckett earned a BA in Anthropology from Kenyon College and an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art.

At least 135 people were killed as a plane plunged into the sea off the West African state of Benin on Thursday.

Benin's main opposition political parties will field a s ingle candidate in the 2011presidential elections, according to a protocol sign e d on Tuesday in Cotonou.

I found the Virgin Mary at the foot of a rock in central Benin. Just her statue, not her appearing for me in the blue-and-white-frocked person, but she still wasn't the kind of attraction I'd have expected Isidore to swerve off the road for, talking her up as an essential Beninois cultural icon.Still, why not? She'd been to the trouble of startling ...