Benin Edition
World Pocket Notebook Day leads today's complete edition for Benin.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for lists, sketches, phone numbers, recipes, reminders, ideas, and the old power of writing something down.
The applique textiles of Abomey are a Fon art form where colored cloth is cut into shapes and sewn onto a background to tell stories of kings, battles, and Vodun spirits. Each banner takes weeks to complete, and the artisans who make them learned from their fathers, who learned from theirs. The Royal Palaces display the oldest surviving examples, and the workshops in town produce new ones every day.
