TheViceroyofOuidah is a novel published in 1980 by Bruce Chatwin, a British author. Chatwin's novel portrays the life of a fictional slave trader named...
broadcast by the BBC. In Patagonia (1977) TheViceroyofOuidah (1980) On the Black Hill (1982) Patagonia Revisited, with Paul Theroux (1985) The Songlines...
Chatwin's 1980 novel TheViceroyofOuidah, the film depicts the life of a fictional slave trader who travels to the West African kingdom of Dahomey. It was...
in the slave trade is the central focus ofthe film Cobra Verde (1987), directed by Werner Herzog and adapted from the novel TheViceroyofOuidah (1980)...
theviceroyofOuidah. Boni Yayi was introduced to his later wife by her older brother Marcel Alain de Souza. A descendant ofthe Yoruba princes of Sabe...
First Novel ofthe Year Award (which raises a question over the status ofthe earlier book TheViceroyofOuidah).[clarification needed] On The Black Hill...
Frere (who sat on the Viceroy's Council), there were an estimated 8 or 9 million slaves in India in 1841. About 15% ofthe population of Malabar were slaves...
the Brazilian-born viceroyofOuidah in the Kingdom of Dahomey. After immigrating from Bahia in Brazil to coastal Dahomey in the 18th century, Francisco...
character in Bruce Chatwin's TheViceroyofOuidah, spent "years communing with the waves and petrels on the island of Ushant". It is mentioned in Dmitry...
President ofthe ECOWAS Commission. Yayi is a great granddaughter of Francisco Félix de Sousa, who was a Brazilian slave trader and theviceroyofOuidah. She...
the third novel in The Flashman Papers series that was set in Dahomey during the slave trade. Bruce Chatwin's historical novel TheViceroyofOuidah (1980)...
are retold, with some changing of names, in Bruce Chatwin's novel TheViceroyofOuidah) portray him as extremely cruel: he is said to have raised hyenas...
Basket of Leaves is a collection of 54 essays by Geoff Wisner, each of which examines one or more books about a different African country. The collection...
time. In 1720, they attacked the slaver port ofOuidah, Kingdom of Whydah (on the coast of what is now Benin), reducing the local fortress to ruins. Later...
São João Baptista de Ajudá in Ouidah, a remnant ofthe West African slave trade, was annexed by the new government of Dahomey (now Benin) that had gained...
controlled by the Yoruba people and Aja people before Europeans arrived. In a paper read to the Ethnological Society of London in 1866, theviceroyof Lokoja...
convincing the ruler. On 1 January 1843, T. B. Freeman reached Ouidah (Whydah) on the coast of Dahomey, where he placed a preacher there. He lodged at the English...