Ouidah's past is closely linked to the slave trade, and here it is still possible to travel the 4 kilometers that thousands of men and women have walked chained, leaving behind their villages their families and their freedom for a future marked by privations, torture and forced labor.

Along the way of the slaves there are the statues of the kings of the kingdom of Dahomey, each king is not depicted as a person but in the form of the symbol or animal that in life represented him; for example there is the statue of a chameleon that was the symbol of a king who rose to power at the age of 60 and who, due to his age, took decisions very slowly, such as the movement of a chameleon.
Ouida, Benin