Benin
- On March 17th, the nation tuned in to the first televised presidential debate ever.
- Patrice Talon, Benin’s cotton king and richest citizen, is elected president. Do businessmen make good presidents? In the US, apparently not.
Watching
- A friend who works at the Ghanaian embassy in Cotonou brought me along to celebrate Christmas with his family in Accra. I pieced together some footage I took on a Sony handycam.
Links I liked
- Hypocrisy of the Indian elite
- Everyday AFrica instagram account – “Photographers living and working in Africa, finding the extreme not nearly as prevalent as the familiar, the everyday. “
- 11 women who are reshaping Africa
- Great pics from FESTIMA, the largest International Art and Mask Festival in West Africa. Below is a Zangbeto from Benin:
