Known as “the most feared women in the world”, the 18th century Dahomey Amazon warriors are believed to have inspired Marvel’s latest blockbuster. Whether you’ve already paid a visit to ...

5,000 African Dahomey women comprised more than 45 percent of the kingdom's army and in the Nicaraguan Sandinistas final push against Anastasio Somoza's army in the 1970s, women comprised 30 percent ...

Opening in September, “The Woman King” stars Viola Davis as General Nanisca of the Agojie (also known as Dahomey Amazons), an army of women warriors upwards of 6,000 strong who battled ...

“Dahomey” by Mati Diop (France, Senegal, Benin) Diop became the first-ever Black filmmaker to win the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2024 with her follow-up to 2019’s highly acclaimed “Atlantics.

These artefacts are "royal treasures", an early title card in Mati Diop's documentary Dahomey informs us, that were pilfered from the kingdom of Dahomey by French colonisers in an 1892 invasion.