Two are: in the mid-nineteenth century, 5,000 African Dahomey women comprised more than 45 percent of the kingdom's army and in the Nicaraguan Sandinistas final push against Anastasio Somoza's army in ...

The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the ...

Opening in September, “The Woman King” stars Viola Davis as General Nanisca of the Agojie (also known as Dahomey Amazons), an army of women warriors upwards of 6,000 strong who battled ...