'The woman king' A Western lie, not a true story

The movie depicts the Agojie or the Dahomey Amazons, an all female group of warriors who fought to protect their kingdoms independence and honour. 

The truth is that Dahomey was an aggressive African state dedicated to warfare and slave raiding against other African kingdoms becoming rich and powerful. For centuries, the woman of Agojie took part in this raiding taking countless number of slaves for use home and abroad.

Dahomey sold slaves in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.

One was the annual sacrifice of hundreds or thousands of slaves. These women's victims were often part of millions of slaves shipped to Europe. One prominent slave that was captured captured was Cujdoe Lewis.

Photo: Cujdoe Lew's. The last survivor of the clotilda ship that sanked in 1860, coming from Africa to the U.S. The ship was found in 2018. 

Cujdoe Lewis wrote a book and in his book he talks about how in his youth the Amazons attacked his village and committed hundreds of atrocities and took him and his people into slavery. The book is called DahomeyBarracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”. 

King Ghezo was a real figure in the movie. He was a supporter of slavery in response to British pressure to abolish the slave trade. 

The movie potrays women as warriors but it is not true. The Agojie woman participated in thousands of atrocities. 

The British explorer Richard Burton claimed "They manouver with the precision of a flock of sheep". Sounds like he was intimidated by the Dahomey kingdom. It really didn't make sense why he would say this, because the British participated in slavery/colonialism. 

When Dahomey faced a clash with the french in the 1890s, both the Amazons and the slave raiding kingdom were defeated by the superior french army. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 and it became a french colony. Then Dahomey gained independence in 1960 as the Republic of Dahomey, which would later rename itself Benin in 1975

In 1999, the president of Benin [Mathieu kerekou] when visiting an all black church in Baltimore, city in U.S, state of Maryland fell down to his knees and begged for forgiveness for Dahomey's role in slavery.