The biggest mosque in Porto-Novo, Benin.

Great Baroque Mosque of Porto Novo built by Brazilian returnees, Agudás. The agudás, as they are known - the word derives from “help”, the Portuguese name for the city of Uidá - are part of families descended from slaves and Bahian traders established there at the height of human trafficking between the two continents. They have surnames such as Souza, Silva, Medeiros, Almeida, Aguiar, Campos, among others, dance the “burrinha”, an archaic version of bumba meu boi, and gather at parties around a bean or kousidou. Not infrequently, the older agudás greet each other with a simple “Good morning, how did it go?”, And the answer does not take long: “Well, thanks”. It is estimated that approximately 10% of Benin's 9, 2 million inhabitants are connected to ex-slaves or Brazilian merchants, who have introduced new eating and religious habits there.