Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has criticized Governor Monday Okpebholo for what it described as ...

Singer Ciara gains Benin citizenship under Afro-descendant law, honoring slave trade history and Black diaspora heritage.

A Benin group, Ogbakha-Edo, is rejecting a provision in a new bill before the National Assembly. The bill aims to establish a Nigerian Council of Traditional Rulers, but the group opposes its ...

US singer Ciara has become one of the first public figures to be granted citizenship of Benin, under a new law offering ...

American R&B singer Ciara has become a Beninese citizen thanks to a new law granting citizenship to descendants of African ...