The warrior group grew to about 6,000 people and was known for being fierce and cruel. The story of King Hangbe is not just that of the past and pres­ent Benin Republic brave women, but also that of ...

Chinedu Eze who was part of the team writes that Benin Republic has unexplored cultural trends that the world will be ...

Excavations of burial sites have uncovered battle-scarred female archers, leading some archaeologists to posit that Amazons ...

Made up of Wakanda’s most skilled warriors, the Dora Milaje ... similarity to the Dahomey Amazons, a female militia that operated in what is now Benin in West Africa throughout the 18th and ...

These indigenous biodiversity warriors held on to their food systems through their unique and extremely localized culinary ...

On the contrary, the film about a female military unit of Dahomey ... to conduct their own raids. Dahomey warriors came by ...

Hundreds of men and women lived at the royal court, and looked after the Oba and his family. The people of Benin traded with ... served the Oba as soldiers. Warriors went into battle armed with ...

Female police officers constitute only around 1.5 per cent of the entire police force in Pakistan. In Pakistan, structural and cultural barriers make it difficult for women to participate in the ...

It triggered a movement of solidarity, which to Loew, is the real warrior tradition. The water protectors at Standing Rock The fight continues for Native men and women. America has adopted the ...

For centuries, women war fighters like Hua Mulan have featured prominently in China's literary, dramatic and historical texts and the woman warrior icon proved hugely popular with mass audiences. Yet ...

Distinct consistencies underpin this apparently paradoxical list and these reveal how the many women warriors of China's rich cultural heritage buttressed, rather than challenged, the existing social ...