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The national flag of Benin [1] (French: drapeau du Bénin) is a flag consisting of two horizontal yellow and red bands on the fly side and a green vertical band at the hoist. Adopted in 1959 to replace the French Tricolour , it was the flag of the Republic of Dahomey until 1975, when the People's Republic of Benin was established.
A red banner charged with two white figures, the one to the hoist decapitating the one to the fly with a sword. An unidentified West African flag was brought to Britain after the Benin Expedition of 1897 against the Kingdom of Benin. [1][2] Debate exists over the origin of the flag, including which West African people created it.
Sources differ as to the which was the first Beninese film, with some pointing to the short Lumière des hommes (1954, director unknown), [1] with others pointing to the work of Pascal Abikanlou, who made a number of documentaries in the 1960s, followed by his first feature film Sous le signe du vaudou in 1974. [2][3] Richard De Medeiros was ...
The legendary origins of the Oyo Empire lie with Oranyan (also known as Oranmiyan), the last prince of the Yoruba Kingdom of Ile-Ife (Ife). According to oral traditions, Oranmiyan made an agreement with his brother to launch a punitive raid on their northern neighbors for insulting their father Oduduwa, the first Ooni of Ife.
Benin is a member of the United Nations, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone, Francophonie, the Community of Sahel–Saharan States, the African Petroleum Producers Association and the Niger Basin Authority.
The Woman King. The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies.
Dahomey. (film) Dahomey is a 2024 internationally co-produced [3] documentary film directed by Mati Diop. It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (in modern-day Republic of Benin), which were held in a museum in France. The film explores how the artifacts were returned from France to Benin, and the reactions ...
This includes films shot in The Republic of Benin, formerly called Dahomey. Pages in category "Films shot in Benin" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.