Here are the times Hollywood depicted women in the military and how they contributed, including some of the best war movies ...

Spike Lee’s bold and inventive war epic follows four Black Vietnam veterans returning ... the Agojie — an elite all-female warrior unit in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey — “The Woman King” is ...

How an RFI investigation helped return an ancient treasure to Benin In Benin, a 'kataklè' – a ceremonial stool, and the final piece of the royal treasure of Abomey – has been returned by ...

The word ‘‘Mino’’ means our mothers in Fon, likewise the Ewe language. The Mino of Dahomey were also referred to as Agojie. They would come to be known by Europeans as Dahomey Amazons. They were a ...

Largest audience award in the world, Lux Audience Award returns for 2025 with Oscar-winning 'Flow' and Ukraine war doc 'Interecepted' as nominees ...

The best documentaries of 2024 as chosen by Matt Carey, documentary editor at Deadline Hollywood.

Franco-Dahomean war of 1889-90, and a likeness of King Ghézo, who ended Dahomey’s tributary subordination to the Oyo Empire in the 1820s. So far, so conventional. But as Ghézo’s shipping crate is ...

“Controversially acquired” is really a euphemism for stolen and looted art typically acquired during times of conflict like war and colonization. French-Senegalese writer and director Mati Diop ...

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 ...