Tofinu (Benin) Indigenous people of Togo and Benin who live in houses on piles in lakes. Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, Africa lying in Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou. With a population of around 20,000 people, it is probably the largest lake village in Africa. The village was created in the sixteenth or seventeenth […]
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Somba (Benin & Togo)
The Somba people, also called Ditamari, are an African ethnic group found primarily in northwestern Benin and northern Togo. The name is a generic term for the Betammaribe and related peoples, who make up about 8% of Benin’s population. Their language is the “Ditammari language”, also known as Tamberma, and it is a northern branch […]
The State Visits - Tribes 