Politics of Benin century until the colonial period, the Kingdom of Dahomey (whose borders encompassed more than present day Benin) was ruled by an "Oba". The French were the colonial power from 1892 to 1960, when independence was finally achieved. Between 1960 and 1972, a series of military coups in Benin (known until 1975 as the Republic of Dahomey) brought about many changes of government. The last of these brought Major Mathieu Kérékou to power as the head of a regime professing strict Marxist-Leninist principles. The Revolutionary Party of the People of Benin (PRPB) remained in complete power until the beginning of the
In Dahomey One "New York Times" report responded to the show by construing it as the initiation of a potential race war, signifying the level of anxiety possessed around the mobility of blacks during the era. "In Dahomey" captures much of the perspective of early 20th-century Broadway. Many songs heavily feature classic vaudevillian extractability and dramatic flexibility. Fewer than a half-dozen songs were topically linear to "In Dahomey"s driving narrative. Only two songs, "My Dahomian Queen" and "On Broadway in Dahomey Bye and Bye", reference location and plot integration. Many songs, such as "Brown-Skin Baby Mine", "My Castle on the Nile", "Evah