11. Another of those horrible massacres, which are a disgrace to humanity, had taken place at Dahomey. The West African Herald publishes, statements from eye-witnesses of the barbaric "custom ...

This framing captures various objects like King Ghezo’s statue or inhabitants of Benin (the renamed version of the Republic of Dahomey). A global society deferring to colonizers has constantly ...

The Dahomey mothers or Amazons were a group of elite all-female soldiers, who were trained to kill and protect the Kingdom of Dahomey, in modern-day Benin. They started by protecting the king ...

FERNANDO POO, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1860. The reports from the Bight of Benin confirm the atrocities carried on by the King of Dahomey. Slaves are sold at Whydah in quantities, and American vessels ...

A similar compliment can be levied on Diop's vital second feature "Dahomey," a by-turns spectral, processual and realist documentary that won the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlinale. In the film ...