The Unesco drive is part of the organisation's flagship Slave Route Project (renamed Routes of Enslaved Peoples), launched in 1994 from Ouidah. It sparked the global development of research ...

OUIDAH, Benin — Less than a mile from what was once West Africa's biggest slave port, the departure point for more than a million people in chains, stands a statue of Francisco Félix de Souza ...

The Unesco drive is part of the organisation’s flagship Slave Route Project (renamed Routes of Enslaved Peoples), launched in 1994 from Ouidah. It sparked the global development of research ...

The tourist guide with a specialization in African civilization is at the historical Slave Road in the city of Ouidah, known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade from the 17th to 19th century.

Former slave trade town seeks to become African art hub Source:AFP Published: 2014-3-9 17:48:02 The Zinsou foundation which runs the new art museum in Ouidah.

Ouidah, Benin AS Western cities see statues of slaveholders and colonialists toppled, Benin's coastal town of Ouidah is going the other way, restoring monuments to the painful era of the slave trade.

The Viceroy of Ouidah tells the real-life story of Francisco Manoel da Silva, a white Brazilian who became the most powerful slave trader on the West African coast in the 1800s.

The Unesco drive is part of the organisation’s flagship Slave Route Project (renamed Routes of Enslaved Peoples), launched in 1994 from Ouidah. It sparked the global development of research ...

The Unesco drive is part of the organisation's flagship Slave Route Project (renamed Routes of Enslaved Peoples), launched in 1994 from Ouidah. It sparked the global development of research ...

As Western cities see statues of slaveholders and colonialists toppled, Benin's coastal town of Ouidah is going the other way, restoring monuments to the painful era of the slave trade.

This picture taken on January 29, 2014 shows the renovated villa Ajavon, which was originally built in 1922, where the new Zinsou museum and contemporary arts center has been established, in Ouidah.

The renovation of the Ouidah fort and the history museum inside is part of Benin's drive to ensure that future generations of Africans know their ancestors' suffering.