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Diane , Armchair Tour Guide
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Aug 18, 2011 04:16PM
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Books set in Benin:
Fools, Thieves and Other Dreamers: Stories from Francophone Africa by Seydi Sow
Doguicimi: The First Dahomean Novel by Paul Hazoume
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
The Dahomean by Frank Yerby
Dawn to Dusk: Folktales from Benin by Iro Eweka
When Gods Bleed by Njedeh Anthony
Show Me the Magic by Annie Caulfield
Edo: The Bini People of the Benin Kingdom by Chukwuma Azuonye
Blood Is Dirt by Robert Wilson
Agotime: Her Legend by Judith I. Gleason
Dubaku by Edward M. Erdelac
The Hinterlands by Karen Mercury
Snares Without Ending by Olympe Bhely-Quenum
Why Monkeys Live in Trees And Other Stories from Benin by Raouf Mama
Amazons of Black Sparta : The Women Warriors of Dahomey by Stanley B. Alpern
Halfhyde at the Bight of Benin by Philip McCutchan
Once upon a Kingdom by Isidore Okpewho
Instruments of Darkness by Robert Wilson
Benin Light by Peter Tonkin
To Benin and Back by Chris Starace
Dahomey As It Is: Being a Narrative of 8 Months' Residence in that Country
A Mission to Gelele King of Dahome by Richard Francis Burton
Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin by Raouf Mama
I have started a Listopia list of books set in Benin here: Books Set in Benin. I compiled the list from this thread plus other suggestions and recommendations found elsewhere on Good Reads and the Internet. Feel free to vote for your favorites and/or add books that I missed!
Ohso - i'm guessing that was from pre-losing Amazon data, and diane couldn't update without losing all of the other entries
More books set in Benin:
The Big Killing by Robert Wilson
The Dark Kingdoms: The Impact Of White Civilization On Three Great African Monarchies
A Darkening Stain by Robert Wilson
Don't Run Over a Snake's Tail, Slowly: A Journal of My Two Years in Benin, West Africa with the Peace Corps.
Flash for Freedom by George MacDonald Fraser
The Last of the African Kings by Maryse Condé
Life & Afterlife in Benin by Okwui Enwezor
Murder in Benin: Kate Puzey's Death in the Peace Corps by Aaron Kase
Struggle For Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa
More books set in Benin:
African Philosophy: Myth and Reality by Paulin J. Hountondji
The Amazons of Dahomey: An Account of the Female Warriors of an African Kingdom
Beautiful Debo by Béatrice Lalinon Gbado
Butterfly Fish by Irenosen Okojie
Curse of the Voodoo King: A Contractors Story by James Rigg
Doc Savage: Land of Long Ju Ju by Kenneth Robeson
In the Land of Ju-Ju: A Tale of Benin, the City of Blood by Robert Leighton
Journals and Correspondence of Louis Fraser: British Vice-Consul to the Kingdom of Dahomey
Sixteen Sons of Oduduwa by Festus Wale Ogunbitan
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music by Angelique Kidjo
Thread of Gold Beads by Nike Campbell-Fatoki
Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War
Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston
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