The Viceroy of Ouidah
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| Author | Bruce Chatwin |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Vintage Classics |
| Released | 1980 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 110 |
| ISBN | 0099769611 |
The Viceroy of Ouidah is a novel published in 1980 by Bruce Chatwin, about the life of a slave trader named Francisco Manoel da Silva, loosely based on the life of an historical Brazilian, Francisco Felix da Souza, who became a powerful personage in Wydah or Ouidah, the so-called Slave Coast of West Africa, now Benin and Togo.
The novel was the basis for the 1987 film Cobra Verde by German director Werner Herzog and starred Klaus Kinski as Francisco Manoel da Silva.
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