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West African country formerly called Dahomey, I shit you not
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Benin ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Benin and formerly Dahomey , is a country in West Africa . It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. A majority of the population live on its small southern ...
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When the first astonishing heads and busts from Ife and Benin were brought to Europe sixty years ago and were seen to be portraits, or very like portraits, they were greeted with a chorus of disbelief: surely they were Greek or Egyptian or even Portuguese, for Negroes had never done anything like that?
Ruy de Siqueira, it seems, had actually landed on the coast of Benin as early as 1472.
These contrasts are especially instructive in the case of the notable kingdom of Benin, not far from the coast of modern Nigeria.
Ife and Benin, whether in terra cotta or cast in metal, are famous everywhere.
After new excavations at the palace of Benin in 1957, Goodwin has shown the possibility of establishing a long series of pottery types.
Lord Auditor Vorkosigan, ghem-General Benin begs the opportunity to speak with you.
It is an internal matter, although we are, of course, grateful to ghem-General Benin for his assistance dealing with any persons outside our purview who may have aided the ba in its .
In the aisle across from Miles and Ekaterin, ghem-General Benin turned from his window.
Grimacing, he allowed Ekaterin and ghem-General Benin to help him from the van into a floater.
Bel dipped its floater for Benin to press the beribboned roll into its hands, and though its eyes were bright with irony, murmured thanks to the distant Fletchir Giaja in return, and kept its sense of humor, for once, under full control.
Ekaterin was next called forward by ghem-General Benin and bestowed with a like beribboned honor.
Neither youthful and inexperienced nor aged and sly, Benin appeared to be a bit over forty-standard, young for his rank but not unusually so.
With a twinge of sympathy he wondered what ghem-Colonel Benin was doing right now, and if Cetagandan security went as frantic behind the scenes as Barrayaran security did at any ceremony involving Emperor Gregor.
Miles wondered if Benin had taken his advice, and spoken with his master yet.
For all he knew it was ghem-Colonel Benin and a voice-filter inside that damned blank sphere.