A new law in Benin gives citizenship to people who can prove their ancestors were sent from Sub-Saharan Africa during the slave trade.

Those who boarded slave ships from the Bight of Benin, or the Slave Coast of Africa, lost more than their homes—they lost their identities. New maps of a former kingdom made by a University of ...

PHOTOS: Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade Benin is not the first country to grant citizenship to descendants of slaves.

European merchants deported an estimated 1.5 million slaves from the Bight of Benin, a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo and part of modern-day Nigeria, said Ana Lucia Araujo, a ...

Senator representing Bayelsa west constituency, Sen. Ben Murray Bruce has questioned why the Bight of Biafra was removed from the map of Nigeria. The Senator who said this during a presentation on ...

The Benin navy's anti-piracy team on patrol in the Bight of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea Pirates have kidnapped nine crew members from a Norwegian shipping vessel off the coast of Benin in West ...

The waterfront development is located at what was the main slave port for the Bight of Benin. From this region, almost two million enslaved Africans departed during the transatlantic slave trade.

The Afro Brazilian architecture enables us to reconstitute the society of the Bight of Benin and to identify the economic actors in the coastal towns such as the Brazilians and their descendants.

Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade.

Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade.

When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel agent said she had a ...

European merchants deported an estimated 1.5 million slaves from the Bight of Benin, a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo and part of modern-day Nigeria, said Ana Lucia Araujo, a ...