2014 Miss France wants to discover her cultural origins - Anago/Yoruba

Greeted at the airport by Benin's Minister of Commerce, Naomi Azaria, Miss France 2014, said all his joy to come to recharge the fold.

"I arrived in Benin, my mother country, not only for recreation in its culture by rediscovering the country and learn a little about my background, but also to conduct humanitarian activities," she said to the press VIP lounge of the international airport Cardinal Gantin Cotonou Bernardi.

According to sources close to the Beninese Ministry of Culture, the Miss France will during his stay in Benin, interview one-on-one with the President of Benin, Boni Yayi.

Besides the interview, Miss Flora Coquerel visit the Central Office for the Protection of Minors and the Hospital of the Mother and Child of Cotonou.

She will also visit Bassila town about 350 kilometers northwest of Benin where she will carry not only the inauguration of a well with a hand pump in the village of Akaradè but lead also development aid activities and cultural immersion Aledjo-Koura.


http://www.afriquinfos.com/articles/2014/3/11/benin-miss-france-2014-veut-decouvrir-origines-culturelles-247470.asp

She is Biracial. Her mother is a Nago kura or Northern Nago from Aledjo Koura.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWc9Bs9lvfA

In regard to the origin of the term “Nago,” Parrinder (1947) explains that according to older Fon
men the name “was given to the Yoruba people in general during the intermittent wars between
Oyo (and later Abeokuta) and Abomey, in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It was an insult, said to mean ‘the lousy’!” Other translations are “the people from over yonder,”
or “the strangers from the north.” (p. 122; see also Tidjani 1945). According to the Dictionnaire
fon-français (Segurola 1963:402), “Nagónu” (or “Anagónù”) refers to fetishers dedicated to the
Sakpota cult, or to the Sέgbó-Lisá, Mǎwǔ, Lisà or Gu cults.

The explanations given above appear to indicate that the term “Nago” is a cover term referring to
speakers of Yoruboid varieties in general rather than to distinct communities. This view seems to
be shared by Capo (1989:277) who states that “… the speakers of the cluster in Bénin and Togo
… are … known as Nagó or Anagó” and that they “… are not distinct communities …”
However, in the same article Capo (1989) also lists Nago as a distinct linguistic community
among all the other Ede varieties, referring to the rural districts of Ifangni, Ikpinlè, Kétou, Pobè
and Sakété in the Ouémé province as well as to some villages of Alédjo and Bassila and rural
districts of Djougou in the Atakora province.


Population
40,000 (2002 SIL).

Location
Donga department: Bassila commune; on Togo border. Aledjo Koura area.
Benin

ClassificationNiger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Defoid, Yoruboid, Edekiri Dialects
Lexical similarity: 78% with Ife [ife] of Tchetti, 76% with Northern Nago [xkb], 68% with Yoruba [yor] of Porto-Novo, 65% with Southern Nago [nqg].

Language Use
All domains. All ages. Also use French [fra], Lukpa [dop], Tem [kdh].

Other Comments
Religion Muslim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aledjo-Koura