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 ...

This innovative documenntary looks at the transfer of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey from France to Benin, ...

As King Ghezo (John Boyega) says in the trailer ... The film is inspired by the true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th ...

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 ...

"Dahomey" and "Sugarcane" will vie against films ... known as “26”: a wooden statue of King Ghezo, a clenched fist raised, whose murky, contrabass voice rumbles through an electronic haze.