Benin's Ganvie: The Venice of Africa Not so long ago, most of the village's 30,000 residents had relied on fishing to make their living. 10.11.2014 - Update : 10.11.2014 . By Serge David.

Lake Nokoué in Benin is home to 80,000 people who live in 42 small stilted villages. The largest of these is Ganvié.

The lake village of Ganvié, known as the Venice of West Africa, is home to a population of fishermen. Lake Nokoué, where it sits, is a shallow stretch of water on the outskirts of the Beninois ...

LAGOS – Lake Nokoue is a lake in the Southern of Benin Republic and the biggest in the entire country. The natural lake is 20km wide and 11km long and covers an area of 4,900 hectares 12,000 acres.

Cotonou is the largest city in Benin, a small West African republic on the Gulf of Guinea. In 1855, the French dug a lagoon canal connecting Cotonou’s ocean coastline with Lake Nokoue, the large ...

Often dubbed as ‘the Venice of Africa’ , Ganvié is located near the southern shores of Benin in West Africa. ... 1996, the Ganvie villagers are often referred to as "water men".

Ganvie is a village set on Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou, in the African country called Benin (a French-speaking nation where vodun (or “voodoo”) religion was born).

Located in the southern part of Benin-Republic, near the port city of Cotonou, is Ganvie; the largest floating village in Africa.It is situated in the middle of Lake Nokoué and is characterized ...

This freewheeling spiritualism is one of Benin’s triumphs yet it has an unhappy past; it was West Africa’s main slave trade hub from the 17th to the 19th centuries, when the kings of Dahomey ...

Lake Nokoué in Benin is home to 80,000 people who live in 42 small stilted villages. The largest of these is Ganvié. ... now he’s a four-time African champion. 17 Jul 2024. Africa ...

One TripAdvisor user wrote: "Ganvie, Benin is a stilt city on Lac Nokoue, and is better known as the "Venice of Africa."The only way to see this community, of 22,000 residents, is by boat.