Cassandra Lewis awaits approval from West African nation while reflecting on her great-great-grandfather Cudjo Lewis's ...

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

He revealed that a formal Memorandum of Understanding, building on this framework, is expected to be signed by the first ...

US singer Ciara has become one of the first public figures to be granted citizenship of Benin, under a new law offering ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

Singer Ciara gains Benin citizenship under Afro-descendant law, honoring slave trade history and Black diaspora heritage.

American R&B singer Ciara has become a Beninese citizen thanks to a new law granting citizenship to descendants of African ...

Benin has appointed renowned American filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, a seasoned producer and author, as ...

As Rolling Stone Africa's latest cover star, Ciara took a cultural visit to Benin where she left with citizenship to the West ...

On Feb. 8-10, a series of roadside bombings in northern Benin’s W National Park killed seven employees of the conservation group African Parks, including four rangers and a French anti-poaching ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (Xinhua) -- An estimated 80,000 children are at high risk of cholera as the rainy season begins across West and Central Africa, a UN spokesperson said Wednesday.