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The People’s Republic of Benin, formerly the Republic of Dahomey, became independent on 1 Aug. 1960, after having been a territory of French West Africa from 1904. The republic was admitted to the UN on 20 Sept. 1960.
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Ronen, D., Dahomey: Between Tradition and Modernity Cornell Univ. Press, 1975
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Paxton, J. (1979). Benin. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271081_17
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