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 ...

The Hollywood movie The Woman King, released in mid-September, became an immediate box-office success. The triumphs of the Agoodjies, the women warriors of the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey in today’s ...

When you attempt to bring a true story to the big screen, the road is bound to get bumpy. Movies rooted in some of the world’s most dramatic and complex moments easily become Hollywood’s biggest ...

The book, History of All-female military warriors and African Kingdom of Dahomey, has profoundly covered the history of Dahomey, formerly known as the Republic of Benin. In writing this book, in-depth ...

T here have been some truly incredible war movies released over the last 10 years. They range from Academy Award darlings ...

Sony Pictures’ “The Woman King” is based on a true story of the Dahomey warriors, an all-female military unit in the West Africa region that’s known as Benin today. They fought for the Kingdom of ...

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. The film required all the female actors to commit to ...

It took the combined talents of four Grammy winners, a symphony orchestra and a choir of African-American opera singers to make “The Woman King” resonate with the sounds of 19th-century West Africa.

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When it comes to the absurdity of American taxpayers giving "reparations" to black descendants of slaves, it's hard to limit the number of objections. Apart from the fact that American slavery, though ...