Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abomey (the kingdom’s capital) and Ouidah (the main port under its control) are shown from the perspective of Nawi, a novice in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a ...

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 ...

Leave it up to investigative journalist Nicole Hannah-Jones to get people thinking about the history behind Viola Davis’ new film, The Woman King. The film is based on the real-life all-women Agojie ...

Emma Kiely has been with Collider since 2021 and has been Horror Editor since July 2023. Emma has a degree in English and Film from University College Dublin. For a while, due to pandemic-induced ...

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 ...

Berlin: The French-Senegalese director’s first film since 2019’s “Atlantics” mulls the meaning of ancient treasures in defining identities When Europe’s great powers raced to colonize a continent in ...

Per Vanity Fair, the West African kingdom of Dahomey is what we know today as Benin. It wielded influence for hundreds of years, holding onto its power from the 17th to 19th centuries. Here's how the ...

Exclusive: The Oscar contender will continue on the festival circuit with TIFF and NYFF screenings. Set in November 2021, the Golden Bear-winning film charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of ...

Mati Diop’s new documentary, Dahomey, is a dreamy little piece of observation, quietly brimming with old-school Negritude and faith in the power of objects. Her ostensible protagonists are not people, ...

Mati Diop never thought she’d see it in her lifetime: 26 royal artifacts, pillaged by the French from the kingdom of Dahomey, finally repatriated from Paris to present-day Benin over a century later.