Pop star Ciara among first beneficiaries of new law for slave descendants American star Ciara will become a citizen of Benin under the new law ...

European merchants deported an estimated 1.5 million enslaved people from the Bight of Benin — a region that includes present-day Benin, Togo and parts of Nigeria — to the Americas.

DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country granting citizenship to descendants of ...

'Being 20 in West Berlin' (1/6). The actor, writer, translator, and photographer, a figure of Germany's artistic and intellectual scene, arrived in the walled-in city in the early 1970s. He never ...

Singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people.

Benin grants citizenship to descendants of enslaved people. US singer Ciara is among the first U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law ...

European merchants deported an estimated 1.5 million enslaved people from the Bight of Benin — a region that includes present-day Benin, Togo and parts of Nigeria — to the Americas.