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 ...

On Jan. 20, 1894, Béhanzin, the 11th ruler of Dahomey — the kingdom in the area today known as Benin — stood before his subjects, fully aware it would be for the last time. Soon he would surrender ...

Illustrations of interior and exterior of snakes temple; pirogue; four carved "fetishes"; the fetish-maker's house; house of sacrifice at Cana; fetish priestesses dancing near the fetish-maker's house ...

The first sign that things are askew is the talking sculpture. "It was so dark in this foreign place that I lost myself in these dreams," a centuries-old effigy murmurs over a pitch-black screen. Its ...