Baroque door of a mosque in Porto-Novo
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Porto-Novo, Benin. Photgraph by Romuald Hazoumé, 2010.
Courtesy the artist
Enslaved people who managed to return to West Africa imported craftsmanship and formal aesthetic know-how from Brazil. Mosques, like the one in Porto-Novo (Benin), speak the language of the Portuguese Baroque.