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Ouidah (wē`dä) or Whydah (hwī`də), town (1992 pop. 32,474), S Benin, a port on the Gulf of Guinea. It was the capital of a small state founded about the 16th cent. From the early 17th cent., Portuguese, French, and Dutch traders were intermittently active at Ouidah, whose name was derived by Europeans from a nearby Portuguese fort called São João Baptista de Ajudá (St. John of Adjuda). In the 18th and early 19th cent. Ouidah was an important export point for slaves. In the 1840s the French established a substantial trade with Ouidah, exchanging textiles, guns, and gunpowder for palm oil and ivory. The town was annexed by France in 1886. Ouiday is a center of the Vodoun (voodoo) religion. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the eighteenth centur3> Oyo established a trading route to the coast at Ouidah, running through a chain of vassal kingdoms and guarded by its armies. Programme National de Lutte contre l'Ulcere e Buruli, Cotonou, Benin; ([dagger]) Institut Regional de Sante Publique (IRSP), Ouidah, Benin; ([double dagger]) Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; ([section]) Medecins sans Frontieres-Luxembourg, Cotonou, Benin; ([paragraph]) Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA; and (#) Universite d'Abomey, Calavi, Benin The delegates were taken to the city of Ouidah and to the sandy shores across which Africans walked to board the ships which would separate them forever from their homeland. |
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