By Venicia Guinot | Tropics Magazine Days into his presidency, Benin’s Romuald Wadagni made an appointment that stopped the nation mid-scroll: Captain Elvire Toupé, the highest-ranking woman in the Beninese
By Venicia Guinot | Tropics Magazine Days into his presidency, Benin’s Romuald Wadagni made an appointment that stopped the nation mid-scroll: Captain Elvire Toupé, the highest-ranking woman in the Beninese
She was banned, banished, jailed, tortured and widowed by a marriage to a man behind bars, and still she refused to bow. A leadership portrait of the Mother of the






