By 1750, King Tegbesu of Dahomey made £250,000 a year selling African people into slavery. With a high demand from Europeans for enslaved labour, slavery became the largest part of the Kingdom ...

Dahomey's title refers to the former Kingdom of Dahomey ... This captures everyday people walking around museums or Benin college students engaging in an open dialogue session.

Albuquerque’s Guild Cinema screened the new documentary “Dahomey.” Directed by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, the ...

The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the ...

In November 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey plundered by French colonialists in 1892 were returned to Benin, the west African nation that now encompasses Dahomey that gained its ...

(The Kingdom of Dahomey was seen in Viola Davis' historical ... I want to make it possible for people to understand these issues." Diop said she originally pictured the film as a narrative feature ...