Porto-Novo

Porto-Novo (230 000 inhabitants in 2002) is the official capital of the Bénin, but it was not developed during many years. Several reasons can explain this situation. One can quote for example the critical reputation and protestor of Oporto-Noviens (inhabitants of Porto-Novo) as their legendary direction of the humor which made them suspect to the eyes of the mode Marxist-Leninist which controlled the Benign one during a quarter century. The existence of the single Beninese port authority with Cotonou (economic capital of Benign) there is also for something.

Thus Porto-Novo lost the impression that everyone could await a capital. But since the Beninese democratic revival, the installation of decentralization and the election of a mayor, the city with the several names (Porto-Novo, Adjachè, the city of Ahinonvis, Hôgbonou) seems to live again and be modernized.

The Goun and the Yoruba are the two dialects most spoken in this city close to the Nigeria which represents an important turntable in the smuggling of the oil products coming from the Giant of Africa.

Today, the city tries to reconstitute its past thanks to its three museums, namely the ethnographic museum, honmey and the da Silva museum.

The city has enough private schools today what makes dream at one year without illiterate.

See too

List of the bishops of Oporto Novo

External bonds

Tourist official site of Oporto Novo

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