The Viceroy of Ouidah

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name = The Viceroy of Ouidah
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author = Bruce Chatwin
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Vintage Classics
release_date = 1980
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 110
isbn = ISBN 0099769611
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"The Viceroy of Ouidah" is a novel published in 1980 by Bruce Chatwin, about the life of a slave trader named Francisco Manuel da Silva, loosely based on the life of an historical Brazilian, Francisco Félix de Sousa, who became a powerful personage in Wydah or Ouidah, the so-called Slave Coast of West Africa, now Benin and Togo. In fact Chatwin was caught up in the violence of a coup in Dahomey (now Benin) when he was researching the book

The novel was the basis for the 1987 film Cobra Verde by German director Werner Herzog and starred Klaus Kinski as Francisco Manuel da Silva.