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 ...

Leonard Wantchekon is a politics professor. Over the past year, he consulted with the makers of “The Woman King,” the new historical drama about a group of all-female warriors from the West African ...