The book, History of All-female military warriors and African Kingdom of Dahomey, has profoundly covered the history of Dahomey, formerly known as the Republic of Benin. In writing this book, in-depth ...

In 2021, 26 treasures that French colonial troops had pillaged from the African kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 made the long journey home from a museum in Paris to what is now the Republic of Benin. Their ...

“The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction,” filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey. The ...

Greek travelers and writers from the ancient world mythologized the Amazons, but these legendary female warriors were very real. They hailed from the ferocious nomadic Scythian tribes that controlled ...

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“Dahomey” packs a lot of introspection and heart into its brisk 68 minutes. Actor-director Mati Diop’s documentary chronicles the transfer of 26 royal treasures from an exhibition in Paris’s Musée du ...

In 1892, French soldiers looted a number of totems and treasures from the West African kingdom of Dahomey, considering these items the spoils of victory after winning the Second Franco-Dahomean War.

A travel documentary doesn’t often focus on the return journey. Its homecomers aren’t often repatriated relics, handed over by those who looted them. But Dahomey, flying from the bowels of a Parisian ...

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.” These are the ...