2 (2000): 381, accessed September 09, 2013, doi:10.2307/220661. Many are convinced the film's Dora Milaje warriors are based on a real life all-woman army in Africa, known as the Ahosi of Dahomey, or the "Dahomey Amazons". Dahomey Women Warriors Posted on February 4, 2008 August 9, 2012 by blackmystory The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin ) which lasted until end of the 19th century. Admired in their country and feared by their adversaries, these formidable warriors never fled from danger. This in turn empowered the warriors to have a more commanding role in determining their future and the future of Dahomey. The courage of the fearless female warriors of Dahomey earned praises from even their enemies. The French conquered Dahomey in 1892 and were particularly ruthless toward the Amazons, executing many of them partly because they noted that the women warriors provided the last resistance to their conquest of the state. Even the Dora Milaje warrior characters from the movie Black Panther; are an inspiration from this Dahomey Female Warriors. The Agoji warrior women commonly referred to as the Dahomey Amazons, a name they got from the French while fighting in the kingdom of Dahomey, were front-line army troops in the kingdom of Dahomey, an empire in West Africa that existed from 1625 to 1894. Bay, Edna. They conquered the Kingdoms of Savi and Whydah in 1727. The Dahomey were a warring nation who actively participated in the slave trade, turning it to their advantage as they captured and sold their enemies. E-mail message to author. Thanks to the combat effectiveness of their training, the women warriors led the tiny Kingdom of Dahomey into a a powerful regional force. review of Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War by Robert B. Edgerton, The International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, no. Bay, Edna. But it was the elite ranks of Dahomey female warriors that amazed Burton. The women soldiers of Dahomey Elite troops of women soldiers contributed to the military power of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They crushed the Allada kingdom that they had separated from more than 100 years earlier. Most West African women lived lives of forced drudgery. – Motto of the Women Warriors of Dahomey. Gezo’s female troops lived in his compound and were kept well supplied with tobacco, alcohol and slaves–as many as 50 to each warrior, according to the noted traveler Sir Richard Burton, who visited Dahomey in the 1860s. Bay, Edna . "Dahomey Female Warriors Inquiry." The female warriors gained economic benefit and earned income from the captives and other trophies they brought back from warring and slave raiding. 9 According to French observer Jean-Marie Bayol, carrying out an execution, either by sword or by simply chucking a captive to a waiting mob, was the last step in becoming a member of the army of the Kingdom of Dahomey.And the most feared — and skilled — of these warriors were the ahosi, a troop of women known far and wide for their bloodthirsty combat prowess. May 3, 2013.
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