French-Senegalese director Mati Diop seemingly supernaturally gives a deep booming voice to those who have been silenced for ...

Béhanzin, the 11th ruler of Dahomey — the kingdom in the area today known as Benin — stood before his subjects, fully aware ...

For her first feature-length directorial effort, Atlantics, writer/director Mati Diop told a saga of love and ghosts. Specifically, she wove a yarn set in Dakar about Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) and ...

The Bandung Conference opened a new era of South-South economic cooperation. Its resolution on economic cooperation called ...

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 ...