ABSTRACT

Located on the coast of West Africa and neighbored by Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria, Benin is a tropical country of nearly 6,220,000 people. The city of Porto-Novo is the country’s capital and home to 330,000 people. Cotonou is the second most important city where the university and Supreme Court are located. Ninety-nine percent of the population is African, mostly consisting of the Fon, Adja, Yoruba, and Bariba peoples. The remaining 1 percent of the population is of European descent. Most Beninois practice traditional indigenous religions such as Voodoo (70%), while 15 percent are Muslim and 15 percent are Christian.