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Benin Republic. Circa 1930 Caption "Porto Novo (Dahomey) Zounon Médjê - Roi de la nuit" Publisher Cl.E.C. Haag
The king of the night was a ritual role in the Porto Novo court, representing an old royal lineage. For more vintage images of Dahomey see the exhibition catalogue Pour une reconnaissance africaine - Dahomey 1930 (Musée Albert-Kahn, 1996) See page 53 for another picture of Zounon Médjê. As well as being a high priest of Fa divination, he wrote an adaption of the Nativity to local context in cooperation with a Catholic priest.
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