A scene from "Dahomey." Les Films du Bal The character of 26 speaks in Fon, its native tongue and the language it would have spoken when it was taken more than 130 years ago in the war against France.

On Jan. 20, 1894, Béhanzin, the 11th ruler of Dahomey — the kingdom in the area today known as Benin — stood before his subjects, fully aware it would be for the last time. Soon he would surrender ...

In Mati Diop’s “Dahomey,” the spoils of war speak. “As far back as I can go,” says a raspy yet reverberant voice over a black screen, “there has never been a night so deep and opaque.” ...

The kingdom of Dahomey boasts but one principal city, that of Abomey, a place of fifty thousand inhabitants, and the residence of the King. ... and somewhat in the arts of war.

In Dahomey (pop. 2,200,000), the situation is aggravated by the fact that it once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that “brains are our biggest export”; now ...

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In 1892, French soldiers looted a number of totems and treasures from the West African kingdom of Dahomey, considering these items the spoils of victory after winning the Second Franco-Dahomean War.

“Dahomey,” “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and “Sugarcane” are among the 20 nonfiction films that have made the ...

The Kingdom of Dahomey’s fierce war against French colonisation was lost in 1892, when thousands of treasures were looted and shipped back to Paris. It’s part of modern Benin, where Macron ...

"Dahomey" by Mati Diop (France, Senegal, Benin) Diop became the first-ever Black filmmaker to win the Berlinale Golden Bear ...

The war has improved the tone of our newspapers in this respect very sensibly. It has given them topics of the gravest importance and the widest interest, and left neither time nor taste for mere ...

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