Sentence examples for benin from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Benin.
Nigeria's neighbours, Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Chad, were expected to attend, along with US, UK and EU representatives.
It's also important to involve civil society and local government in programmes, as is being done in Benin.
The US, Britain, France and the European Union are backing the creation of a multinational force of 8,750 troops led by Nigeria and Chad with contingents from Cameroon, Niger and Benin.
At their second conference in Benin, Patrick Kamdem, a young member from Cameroon, set out their vision "to create an enabling space so that young women and men can channel their creativities, potentialities and vibrancies in transforming their communities".
A CENTURY ago the Benin bronze heads, along with intricately carved ivory tusks, adorned ancestral altars in the palace of the King of Benin, or "Oba".
The more recently assembled collection in New York's Metropolitan Museum is especially fine.For many black people worldwide, Benin art is symbolic both of an aristocratic African past and of a colonialist's debt that is still outstanding.
The shameful business of human trafficking is localised in Benin City, the capital of Edo state.
And many, particularly a small group of countries in West Africa, worried most of all about cotton.Prodded and encouraged by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), especially Oxfam, a group of four West African countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali managed to get cotton included as an explicit item on the Cancún agenda.
His vice-presidential running mate is a pastor who has fought hard for human rights and cleaner government.Setting an exampleSince 1991, when an incumbent leader on the African continent in little Benin was for the first time peacefully ejected at the ballot box after three decades without genuine democracy, at least 30 governments and presidents have been voted out of office.
But as Mr Bush embarks on a five-country tour of Africa this week, he can point to more successes than critics give him credit for.Mr Bush and his wife will visit Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Benin, Ghana and Tanzania seem stable and are democratic.
