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  • PoetryFáAnonymous · 1700not translated into EnglishThis knowledge is passed on by word of mouth, in a kingdom where no important decision is made without consulting the oracle.Literature
  • NovelL'EsclaveFélix Couchoro · 1929not translated into EnglishA commercial clerk from Dahomey, a former mission schoolteacher, publishes in Paris a novel set on the banks of the Mono.Literature
  • NovelDoguicimiPaul Hazoumé · 1938A Dahomean schoolteacher and ethnologist publishes in Paris a novel drawn from twenty-five years of interviews with the elders of Abomey.Literature
  • TaleContes dahoméensJulien Alapini · 1941not translated into EnglishA Dahomean schoolteacher trained at the École William-Ponty publishes in France, in the middle of the war, a collection of tales from his country.Literature
  • NovelSnares Without EndUn piège sans finOlympe Bhêly-Quénum · 1960In the year of independence, a Dahomean teacher of literature settled in Normandy publishes his first novel, rejected by about ten publishers.Literature
  • Short storiesL'Arbre féticheJean Pliya · 1971not translated into EnglishA former minister turned short-story writer brings together texts, the first of which had won a prize eight years earlier.Literature
  • CinemaSous le signe du vaudouPascal Abikanlou · 1974Dahomey, soon to become Benin, sees the release of its first major fiction film, shot in colour on 16 mm.Cinema
  • CinemaLe Nouveau VenuRichard de Medeiros · 1976Two years after the country's first feature-length fiction film, a literature teacher makes a comedy about the administration.Cinema
  • EssayAfrican Philosophy: Myth and RealitySur la « philosophie africaine ». Critique de l'ethnophilosophiePaulin J. Hountondji · 1977A young Beninese philosopher trained in Paris breaks with the idea of an African wisdom shared by an entire people.Literature
  • CinemaIronuFrançois Sourou Okioh · 1985A documentary maker trained in Eastern Europe makes a political fable and sets it in an invented country.Cinema
  • Short storiesLes Enfants de MandelaJérôme Carlos · 1988not translated into EnglishIn Abidjan, an exiled Beninese journalist makes South African segregation the subject of a book, because a newspaper column seems too narrow to him.Literature
  • NovelUne femme dans la lumière de l'aubeBarnabé Laye · 1988not translated into EnglishThe first novel of a Beninese poet settled in Paris, in which a young Frenchman discovers his father's continent.Literature
  • NovelNotre pain de chaque nuitFlorent Couao-Zotti · 1998not translated into EnglishA former teacher turned satirical journalist publishes his first novel in Paris, three years after a first play.Literature
  • NovelModukpè, le rêve briséAdélaïde Fassinou · 2000not translated into EnglishA literature teacher who teaches in the secondary schools of her country publishes in Paris a first novel, the story of a girl's adolescence.Literature