The third king of Dahomey, King Houegbadja, is said to have initially set up the tribe as elephant hunters, but under the rule of his daughter, Queen Hangbe, who was in power from 1708 to 1711 ...

Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu star in 'The Woman King' about the Agojie, an all-female warrior group. Is it based on a true story? Here's what we know.

The Woman King starring Viola Davis is based on the real-life Agojie women of Dahomey. Here's the true story behind the movie.

Although “inspired by true events,” “The Woman King” clearly isn’t tethered to them, using the underlying story of 19th-century female warriors in an African kingdom as the jumping-off ...

Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu star in 'The Woman King' about the Agojie, an all-female warrior group. Is it based on a true story? Here's what we know.

Netflix released a new trailer for Anna Kendrick's upcoming film 'Woman of the Hour,' her first as a director. She stars as a struggling actress in the 1970s who meets a serial killer after ...

Woman of the Hour, Netflix’s new based-on-true-story serial killer movie, will make you thankful you don’t live in the 1970s.Serial killers could really do whatever they wanted back then! In ...

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood, Beninese economist and historian Leonard Wantchekon and film professor Racquel Gates push back on the online campaign accusing 'The Woman King' of historical ...

LA Times‘ Sonaiya Kelley connects the fictional Dora Milaje, warrior women of Black Panther’s Wakanda, with the real-life Agojie. In The Woman King, the Agojie’s story is treated more ...

The Trial of King Ahebi …the woman who became man, is a recreation of an epic story of the first and ever Igbo King who was a woman and who ruled tyrannically, marrying wives for herself, taking ...

One of the interesting tales of the great woman is how she became the woman king of the Ga people despite being a Guan. Naa Dode Akabi took over the Ga Kingdom after her husband, Nii Okai, who was ...

Similar to the movie’s description, it is based on the Agojie, otherwise known as the Amazons, an army of women who protected Dahomey, the West African Kingdom that lasted from the 17th to the ...