16 mai 2020
walther, « ‘Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh, An Amazon in the Dahoman Army’ Pictures of gender and violence », Africa in Global History, ID : 10670/1.etq1u1
In 2018, the Marvel film “Black Panther” entered the cinema screens. One major thread of the film is the women’s army Dora Milaje. It is inspired by the Dahomean Mino, often referred to as Black Amazons; ‘female soldiers’ or ‘women warriors’. The kingdom of Dahomey existed from the 17th to 19th century at the Atlantic Coast in today’s Benin. Having potentially developed from the personal guard of the Dahomean king in the 17th century, the mino soldiers became part of the fighting army in the ...