Djigbe!

The marche in my village. Every night there is a market in and around these pavillions and across the street from them. Prepared food (rice, beans and bouille), oranges, bananas, pineapples, plantains, tomatoes, garlic/pepper/pimante, fried tofu (when they call soy cheese) and gelatinous wheat/mais/cassava products like akassa are among the things available every night.

Sins for various schools and churches. This is in the center of my village, where the road forms a Y to head to Hozin or Hondji.

A statue of two women and a lion. According to Vodun, if a woman is suspected of cheating on her husband, she enters a house ith only women and looks into a pot of water. If she is innocent, the water will swish. If she is not, the faces of all the men she has cheated with will appear in the pot. If the woman is guilty of cheating, deermined by the non-swishing water, she will see lions everywhere she goes for the rest of her life. So this statue is a tribute to the horrors suffered by women in Benin who have slept with someone other than their husbands. Most men in Benin have two or three wives.

Palm patties drying on the side of a house to later be burned for fire. They squeeze the oil out of palm nuts and then use the remaining pulp to make patties. They smell awful but apparently burn wonderfully.

Not your Iowan cornfield!! That's cassava off on the left, and palm in the background.

A vodun ceremony in village.

The road tp Hozin. I buy phone credit from the little yellow and green "cabine" on the left.

Statues in my village. The one of the left is the God of Thunder and the ones on the right, I forget. Should have done my research but here I am in Cotonou and no one to ask. Guess you'll just have to come to Benin! : )

Hozin or Hondji.