What was West Africa like in the 1500’s? Benin was a city that dated back to the eleventh century – and no relation to the West African nation of Benin of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Benin was a large city for its time – a walled city several kilometres wide in a forested region inland from where the Niger River emptied into the Atlantic. In the mid-1400s the ruler of Benin‚ Ewuare‚ built up his military and began expanding. Captives taken in battle he traded to the Portuguese. Benin’s
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MAT NO MGS0803060 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN‚ BENIN-CITY‚ EDO STATE‚ NIGERIA. OCTOBER‚ 2012. AGENCY THEORY AND ACCOUNTING CHOICE: ISSUES AND HALLENGES BY OMEJI IKECHUKWU MAT NO MGS0803060 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN‚ BENIN-CITY‚ EDO STATE‚ NIGERIA. OCTOBER‚ 2012.
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Forestry and Bioenergy CDM Carbon Projects in Africa Lessons drawn from the CASCADe programme in Benin and Senegal Article under the direction of Françoise d’Estais and Robert Vergnes. Mme Françoise d’Estais is Program Manager at the United Nations Environment Programme in charge of carbon finance - francoise.destais@unep.org . Mr. Robert Vergnes is a member of the panel of experts to the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) of the UNFCCC‚ and Practice Leader of Energy & Climate Change
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Picasso’s experiments with Cubism. The Yoruba people of Ife also influenced lost-wax cast metal art‚ also known as Benin Art after the people of Benin perfected the art to the highest quality. The Village craft workers had extensive knowledge of pottery and metalworking temperature changes to prevent the materials from cracking during the casting process. The guild workers in Benin City forged and cast clay and metal in wax casts that were shaped into pots‚ masks‚ and statues. After which they
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Now that the poem is well understood‚ there is a need to analyse the painting as well. Wiley‚ the artist of the piece “Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps”‚ is a contemporary artist who paints African Americans from all over the world‚ often in relation to aristocratic or noblemen paintings of the Classical European period. His models are often from the streets of New York City and are painted in their everyday clothes‚ or whatever they’re just wearing. This process of randomly selecting people
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| | |Early history of Nigeria | |Early Nigerian history relates to the period of history in Nigeria prior to the common era. Recent archaeological | | |research has shown[who?] that people were already living in Nigeria (specifically the Iwo-Eleru) as early as 11‚000 | | |BC and perhaps earlier at Ugwuelle-Uturu (Okigwe) in south-eastern Nigeria.[1] Microlithic and ceramic industries |F| |were
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each with their own languages and culture. Chief’s or King’s held the highest position in society they maintained peace and order‚ assigned jobs‚ collected tax and led wars to protect their tribes. The empire of Songhai and the kingdoms of Mali‚ Benin and Kongo were large and powerful‚ with monarchs heading complex political structures governing hundreds of thousands of subjects. In other areas‚ political systems were smaller so they relied on agreements between Chiefs and kings.
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Hundreds are taken each year from countries in West Africa such as Bénin and Togo across the sea to Gabon‚ a richer oil-exporting country. They are usually taken across a land border to Nigeria and then on by canoe to Gabon‚ across 500 kilometers of open sea. In most cases‚ they work for other West Africans in Gabon’s capital‚ Libreville. When the ship‚ the Etireno‚ arrived back at its port of departure‚ Cotonou in Bénin‚ on 17 April 2001‚ 43 children disembarked: 23 were aged between five
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products‚ Evian first worldwide brand of bottle water. The domination of the group in the food industry is well proven‚ fresh dairy products‚ bottled water‚ medical and child nutrition‚ enabled him to be famous in Republic of Benin(west Africa).the market of food in Benin is very competitive . By innovating and developing its products‚ DANONE has won customers who are becoming increasingly demanding. On the other hand the globalization of the 80 marked the success of the company in Europe and
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North Africa caused internal unrest. Question5 The brass plaque in the photo below shows a king of Benin flanked by two attendants. Use the photo to answer the following question: What does this plaque demonstrate about Benin culture? (5 points) Select one: a. Benin culture valued the common people. b. In Benin‚ they used slave soldiers and craftsmen. c. Benin artists were skilled metal workers. d. In Benin‚ the king was all powerful. Question6
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