From the late 1600s to the early 1900s, the West African kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin) was protected by an all-female regiment of warriors. Depicted here in a 19th-century lithographic ...

Marvel found inspiration in history when it used tales of West African women warriors as the basis for the fearsome Dora Milaje in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The fictional Dora Milaje ...

The Agojie were warriors of Dahomey ... Here’s what the history books have to say about the Amazons of West Africa. The Agojie were an all-women troop of soldiers who functioned as the royal ...