Timeline of Cotonou

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in English

• R. Cornevin (1980). "Kotonou". In C.E. Bosworth; et al. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. 5. Leiden: Brill.
• "Benin: Cotonou", West Africa (4th ed.), Lonely Planet, 1999, OL 8314753M
• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Cotonou, Benin". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
• J. Joost Beuving and Joost Beuving (2004). "Cotonou's Klondike: African Traders and Second-Hand Car Markets in Bénin". Journal of Modern African Studies. 42 (4): 511–537. doi:10.1017/S0022278X04000382. JSTOR 3876137. S2CID 153955180.
• J. Joost Beuving (2006). "Lebanese Traders in Cotonou: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Economic Mobility and Capital Accumulation". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 76 (3): 324–351. doi:10.3366/afr.2006.0036. JSTOR 40022740. S2CID 56422479.
• "Cotonou". Benin. Bradt Travel Guides. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84162-148-7.

in French

• Paule Brasseur-Marion (1953). "Cotonou porte du Dahomey". Cahiers d'Outre-Mer [fr] (in French). 6 – via Persee.fr.
• Gautier Pirotte; Marc Poncelet (2003). "Société civile et nouvelle gouvernance au Bénin: Quelques réflexions illustrées à partir de l'analyse du nouveau secteur ONG à Cotonou". Bulletin de l'APAD [fr] (in French). 26 – via Revues.org.
• Sébastien Dossa Sotindjo (2009). Cotonou: l'explosion d'une capitale économique, 1945-1985 (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 9782296111516.
• Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2011). "Cotonou". Benin. Le Petit Futé (in French). ISBN 9782746929241.