On Jan. 20, 1894, Béhanzin, the 11th ruler of Dahomey — the kingdom in the area today known as Benin — stood before his subjects, fully aware it would be for the last time. Soon he would surrender ...

Another of those horrible massacres, which are a disgrace to humanity, had taken place at Dahomey. The West African Herald publishes, statements from eye-witnesses of the barbaric "custom" just ...

The Dahomey mothers or Amazons were a group of elite all-female soldiers, who were trained to kill and protect the Kingdom of Dahomey, in modern-day Benin. They started by protecting the king ...