The image of the bushcow is associated with King Ghezo (1818-1858). Families claiming descent from the king would use the bushcow image on ancestral altars. This object was supposedly owned by General ...

The King's Foundation celebrated its 35th anniversary with an awards ceremony attended by stars, including David Beckham, who recently became an ambassador for the royal charity.

THE PICTORIAL RECORDS OF DAHOMEY.—The Institut d'Ethnologie of Paris has inaugurated a series of publications of its own, to be known by the general title of “Travaux et Memoirs,” with two ...

The fantasy begins when Diop gives voice to Object No. 26, a statue that represents King Ghezo, who ruled from 1818 to 1859.

With the brilliant documentary “Dahomey,” winner of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear, Diop has created one of 2024’s must-see movies.

Directed by Mati Diop, the award-winning documentary Dahomey explores stolen relics being returned to the titular kingdom.

“Dahomey” chronicles the return of looted artifacts to Benin, from the perspective of one of the treasures, known as “26”: a wooden statue of King Ghezo, a clenched fist raised.

Viewers follow “object 26”, a statue of King Ghezo who ruled Dahomey from 1797 until 1818, as he narrates his journey from a storage unit in a French museum, back to his homeland.

Narrated in native Fon by the surreal and disembodied voice of an anthropo-zoomorphic royal statue representing King Ghezo (who served as King of Dahomey from 1818 to 1848), Dahomey shapes its ...

Though we learn little about the particular histories of each artifact, a haunting narration written by Haitian author Makenzy Orcel speaks from the perspective of the statue of King Ghezo, also ...