Bare Houses Look Like Small Fortresses Between Mountains and the Batammariba People Have Transformed Architecture, Agriculture and Rituals Into a Single Landscape

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Among the mountains of Atacora, in north-east Togo and north-west Benin, Koutammakou forms a cultural landscape still inhabited and cultivated by Batammariba. Its best known features are takienta, tower houses of land that combine domestic functions, practices, protectors and symbolic with agricultural fields, sacred forests, cemeteries and ceremonial spaces. As Koutammakou became...