Ganvié in Benin is known as the Venice of West Africa.

Name: Ganvié in Benin is known as the Venice of West Africa.
Uploaded: 2022-07-18T13:33:47.000Z
Duration: 2 min 41 s
Description: Lake Nokoué in Benin is home to 80,000 people who live in 42 small stilted villages. The largest of these is Ganvié.

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The lake village of Ganvié, the largest lakeside village in Africa, can be found on a shallow stretch of water on the outskirts of the Beninois capital, Cotonou. It's home to a population of fishermen.

More than 80,000 people live across 42 islands.

Produced by Clarisse Fortune

Filmed and edited by Franck Noudofinin

Africa

18 July 2022