The Woman King tells the story of the Agojie, an elite, all-woman army in the West African kingdom of Dahomey. Photo by Chris Hellier / Corbis via Getty Images. At its height in the 1840s, the ...

But Mongkut’s guards performed a ceremonial function, and the king could never bear to send them off to war. What made Dahomey’s women warriors unique was that they fought, and frequently died ...

Chief Hunsu Athanzuku, the leader of Jegba Quarters in Badagry, Lagos State, said yesterday that it was the Dahomey war that led to the creation of Badagry kingdom by his great-grandfather in 1738.

What ‘The Woman King’ gets wrong — and right — about Dahomey’s warriors The new film tells an embellished story of Dahomey women soldiers. September 20, 2022 More than 2 years ago ...

The French, under the command of Col. Alfred-Amedee Dodds, launched an all-out war on Dahomey. On Nov. 16, 1892, Dodds marched into Abomey to find the city already in flames, ...

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.

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.

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.” ...

When Europe’s great powers raced to colonize a continent in the so-called “Scramble for Africa” just before the First World War, the tiny coastal Kingdom of Dahomey in the south of modern ...

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 ...

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 ...