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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Benin is building a themed park to remember slavery - is history up for sale? [The Conversation, December 2022]

Title:
Benin is building a themed park to remember slavery - is history up for sale?
 
Author:
Dominique Somda 
Junior research fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town
 
Published:
The Conversation, 15 December 2022
 
From the article:
The Marina Project is a vast memorial and tourist complex under construction in Ouidah, a coastal town in the Republic of Benin in West Africa. The country hopes to market itself as a major destination for Afro-descendant tourists in the diaspora.