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5 unusual facts about Fon


Bamenda

An alliance of five ethnic groups founded a chieftaincy (a fon) known as the Mankon Fon.

FON

SoftBank is Fon's first collaboration with a mobile line operator wanting to offload data traffic to Wi-Fi.

Linus: (named for Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux project): has a Fonera router, shares Wi-Fi and gets free roaming at others' Fon Spots.

Bill: (named for Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft): has a Fonera router, shares Wi-Fi, gets free roaming at any Fon Spot, and can get 50% of the net revenues when a visitor purchases a Fon pass at their Fon Spot.

Ola Ahlvarsson

In 2005, Ahlvarsson assisted in the launch of FON, today the world's largest WiFi Community, expanding FON into Scandinavia and Russia.


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Afro-Barbadian

So, according the historian Karl Watson, most slaves imported into Barbados were Akans (Ashanti and Fante from Ghana), Ewe and Fon (coming both from Benin).

Akaba of Dahomey

In addition, Houegbadja also had a younger son named Dosu (the traditional name for the first male born after twins in Fon) who would later take the name Agaja.

Annual Customs of Dahomey

The Annual Customs of Dahomey (xwetanu or huetanu in Fon) were the main yearly celebration in the Kingdom of Dahomey.

Candomblé Jejé

The various ethnic groups as Fon, Ewe, Fante, Ashanti, mine to come in Brazil, were called "djedje", deployed here in your worship Salvador, Cachoeira and São Félix in Bahia, and São Luís of Maranhão, then spread itself to several Brazilian states.

Dakodonou

Evidence of this is suggested through the fact that the head priest of the kingdom, the agasunon in Fon, was always from the lineage of Dakodonu.

Demographics of Benin

:African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 10,000

Fon people

In the Juan Liscano historian´s opinion, before of 1700 the Fon of Whydah, Dahomey, sold to European traders members of the following tribes (Liscano, 1950: 74 s): Wida, Popo, Adja (residents in southeastern Togo and Benin southeast), Ketou (perhaps the city of the same name in Benin), Ewe and Mahi (residents in Abomey, the old capital of Dahomey Empire).

Frank Stitt

Frank Stitt III is the owner and executive chef of Highlands Bar and Grill, Bottega Restaurant, and Chez Fon Fon in Birmingham, Alabama.

Jean-Baptiste Hachème

Of Fon origins, he entered the national political stage in 1963, when he quelled riots started by supporters of former president Hubert Maga.

Nouréini Tidjani-Serpos

As well as being fluent in several African languages (Yoruba, Fon, Éwé and Goun), he speaks English and French and reads Spanish fluently.

Second Franco-Dahomean War

The Fon, prior to the outbreak of the second war, had stockpiled between 4,000 and 6,000 rifles including Mannlicher and Winchester carbines.

Shotgun house

The name may have originated from the Africa's Southern Dahomey Fon area term 'to-gun', which means "place of assembly".


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