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Robert Bates, who is one of my favorite authors on all things post-independence Africa, wrote a great book, When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa. He doesn't talk extensively about Benin but it seems like whenever he does he cites Christopher Allen's Benin/the Congo/Burkina Faso: Economics, Politics and Society.
I know you're looking for more recent stuff but I've read bits and pieces of Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960.
Hope that helps. Safe travels and enjoy your time there.
Violence and Social Orders by North, Wallis, Weingast. It's more of an econ history book but it lays out ideas about how societies are structured using economic concepts. I took a course taught by John Wallis and it was by far one of the most interesting I had.
And When Things Fell Apart and Market and States in Tropical Africa both by Robert Bates and are good short reads. They focus on how the politics and economics both failed when trying to industrialize several African States.