Claim: Benin values French-speaking for employment, bureaucracy, education, as well as everyday life and made it their sole official language, but even more so in the south of the country where Francophones are more common.
Evidence: The only official language of Benin is French, according to title I, article I of the Constitution of Benin. It is important to know French to get an administrative position or work in the cities in general, and speaking it is a mark of prestige. Of the Beninese languages, Fon (a Gbe language) and Yoruba are the most important in the south of the country.