Les Liens:
Sites Specific to the Fon Language
Benin and Peace Corps Related Groups
News and General Information About Benin
Personal Web Sites About Trips to Benin
http://www.avod.fr.st/ Notre volonté est de permettre aux gens de mettre en oeuvre leur propre développement de façon durable en leur apportant des aides dans le domaine de l'éducation et la santé.
Elle souhaite aider les populations défavorisées à acquérir les infrastructures scolaires, sanitaires, communautaires et les équipements adéquats dont elles ont besoins pour un développement harmonieux.
Sites Specific to the Fon Language:
SIL
International (Formerly: Summer Institute of Linguistics)- This is an exhaustive list of all the languages spoken in Benin.
All 51 are listed with linguistic roots, and brief information on the
population that speaks each language.
An Academic Article About Fon Relating to Linguistics
Benin and Peace Corps Related Groups:
Friends of Benin The official Friends of Benin Web page designed by
John Boe. Contains photos of
Benin, a link to the FOB E-mail list server, funny excerpts from past PCV
deadbeats, links to News about Benin, Beninese recipes, travel info., message
guest book Etc.
We
for Our Volunteers
PC Benin- We Care for Our Volunteers- A great site put together by Rena Smith, a mother of a current Peace Corps Volunteer. The site serves a support group for friends and family of current Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV's) in Benin, as well as for the PCV's who have occasional access to the internet in Cotonou. Read about what current PCV's are doing and get general information about Benin. The group maintains contact through Yahoo Groups list server. If you have a loved one in the Peace Corps in Benin, then this group is for you!
Returned PC Volunteer
Web Ring- This site will take you to many other Peace Corps related
web sites.
Peace
Corps
National Peace Corps Association - An
association of returned Peace Corps Volunteers whose goal is to continue their
international service from home.
Friends of Togo Fufu Bar-
This is a website for the Friends of Togo Group who are mostly Togo Returned
Peace Corps Volunteers.
The Peace Gallery- A collection of pictures submitted from different Peace Corps Volunteers dedicated to showing positives of developing nations.
University of Laval's Benin List Server- This is a very active list server comprised of about 250 people. Most are Beninese expatriates living in Africa, Europe, US, and, Canada. Most messages are in French and topics are frequently about current events in and issues relating to Beninese expatriates. I find it quite interesting. I subscribe to the digest which sends me all the messages posted for the day as attachments in one message.
News and General Information About Benin:
NewAfrica.com
- Great factual information about Benin.
NewsAfrica.com-
Links
to other African news sources as well as some of their own news.
Le Matinal - (A Beninese
Newspaper) I is updated it daily. I have
to say Beninese journalism is under-developed as is Benin, but it is a good way
to keep up on what’s going on in Benin and a good way to practice your French.
AfricaInfo.com- A site giving news and other information about Benin. Is in French. The graphic of all the sky scrapers is not of Benin. When I was there last (three years ago), there were only 2 or 3 buildings over 10 stories high in Cotonou. The site includes a copy of Benin's constitution as well as a phone book for Benin.
Centers
For Disease Contol- This site offers health related information
about traveling to West Africa
Radio France
International. Remember?…
the only other station on the dial in Benin besides the National Radio
Station. If sure brings back
memories for me hearing it. You
can choose to listen to broadcasts by category such as Afrique Matin, Afrique
Sorir, Magazine Afrique, etc. in French, English or several other languages. You need Real Player and can download it for free (they
provide a link to it). Once you have Realplayer you can either listen through
streaming audio or you can download the whole audio file and save it to your
hard drive.
The Abomey Museum - In English and French. Pictures of the museum’s exhibits, history of the Danhome Kings, and other info about Benin. Brush up on your Beninese history here.
UPENN's Info Pages on Benin- A great resource for information and links about Benin. Offers some in depth information on various topics.
Information About the Kings of Abomey - History of the Kings.
Investing
In Benin - This site give economic information related to companies and
individuals interested in investing in Benin. The site is in French.
Africultures.com- An African Web portal offering many different types of information relating to Africa. Is in French and English.
Africa on Line- Another African Web portal offering News, and many Africa related links.
Yahoo News About Pan-Africa - These news stories are mostly American news sources and the BBC. There are a few stories from African news sources.
CIA's Benin Info. Pages- Offers very thorough and up to date statistical information about Benin.
Haitian Voodoo The
American Museum of Natural History in New York created this website for their
exhibit in 1999.
Information on Voodoo in French
Mami Wata.Com- - This site is about Mami Wata, a Voodoo God worshiped in Benin and Togo, as well as many other aspects of Voodoo. The site give much information about other Voodoo gods as well. This is a great site but it is graphics intensive and many pages are long, so they are slow to download.
New Orleans Voodoo Pages "This Web site has information and photographs about New Orleans-style Voodoo and the famous historic cemeteries."
Orisha Net- "Dedicated to being an accurate source of information on La Regla Lucumí for those learning the religion and other interested parties." This site is about Santería (Cuban Voodoo). It is very much related to the Voodoo that is practiced in Benin.
Vodou (Haitian)
The Ancestor Page - A site dedicated to Haitian Voodoo.
The Quick and the Dead: The Souls of Man in Vodou Thought- An article about Haitian Voodoo.
Religious
Tolerance. Org "VODUN (and related religions
such as: Candomble, Lucumi, Macumba,
Voodoo, Vodoun, and Yoruba)" Lots of good general information
here.
Voodoo: From Medicine to Zombies
Vodun Culture - About Haitian Voodoo.
Voodoo Cultural Center and Museum- Sells all sorts of Voodoo paraphernalia.
Personal Web Sites About Trips to Benin:
Our Trip to Togo and Benin -This is an interesting web site about an RPCV and his African wife who returned to Africa to visit Togo and Benin.
A Story About Traveling From Niamey to Cotonou by bus and Bush taxi. - A real adventure to say the least!
Sean O'Keefe is a Peace Corps Volunteer stationed in Ouake in Benin, West Africa. He writes his journal on notebook paper by lantern light and sends the handwritten text, along with film, to his mother in North Carolina. She types his text and has his film developed and then sends them electronically to friends at The Edcomm Group.
Mindy Banker's Peace Corps Adventure!!
This site is intended to share a piece of her experience with all of her friends, family, and well-wishers.
Lone Traveller.com - A guy name Jack recounts his vacation to Benin. His accounts are very detailed and interesting.
Quintessence- www.festival-ouidah.org Le festival de film qui avait lieu à Ouidah's au début de janvier pendant les 3 an passés. .
L'école de film à Ouidah's- www.l-ico.org
Anjelique Kidjo's Web Site- Anjelique Kidjo is one of Benin's most famous singers. She has had many hit albums that have been popular throughout the world. She has toured all over the United States, Africa, and Europe. I personally love her music. Check out
Eziba.com - This is an online store selling hand made crafts from around the world. They have 92 items from Africa. I found an Applique from Benin under the Ivory Coast. I guess they are buying from a Beninese person who is living and working in Benin. The price was a lot more than you'd pay in Benin, but it's a lot cheaper than a trip to Benin.
US State Department Consular Information Pages and Travel Warnings- Hit B and go to Benin's page. There are no travel warnings as of 2/3/01. Go here for the consular information page.
A great list of links to pages related to Benin and Africa - This is a page from the above site- PC Benin- We Care for Our Volunteers page. There are many very interesting links to websites about Benin.
Web Site with Many Links to Beninese governmental and non-governmental organizations, and general information about Benin.
Quid.Fr Benin Search Results- WWW.Quid.Fr. is a French search engine. The link will take you to a query using the word "Benin" so each time you click this, you may get different results as the search engine updates their database.
E-mail me if you would like your Benin related web site added to this list or if any of these links don't work..
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