The Real Warriors Behind ‘The Woman King’ - Smithsonian Magazine
2022年9月15日 · At its height in the 1840s, the West African kingdom of Dahomey boasted an army so fierce that its enemies spoke of its “ prodigious bravery.” This 6,000 -strong force, known as the Agojie,...
The True Story Behind The Woman King | TIME
2022年9月16日 · In The Woman King, Nanisca experiences firsthand the horrors of slavery, and works to convince King Ghezo to stop participating in the slave trade—or at least to end the tributary status of the...
The Woman King vs. the True Story of Dahomey's Female Warriors
2022年9月4日 · Is Viola Davis' character, Nanisca, based on a real Dahomey warrior? In movie, Nanisca (Viola Davis) is the general of the Agojie (Dahomey Amazons). While she appears to be almost entirely fictional, French naval officer Jean Bayol, who visited the region in December 1889, wrote of watching a teenage recruit named Nanisca, "who had not yet ...
The Woman King - Wikipedia
In the West African kingdom of Dahomey in 1823, [8] General Nanisca, leader of the all-female regiment of warriors, the Agojie, liberates Dahomean women who were abducted by slavers from the Oyo Empire. This provokes King Ghezo of Dahomey …
Who Were the Real Women Warriors of Dahomey? - HowStuffWorks
2022年9月27日 · The hit 2022 film "The Woman King" stars Oscar-winner Viola Davis as Nanisca, an Agojie general bravely defending her kingdom, led by King Ghezo, against an unholy alliance between Dahomey's archrival, the Oyo Kingdom and European slave traders.
Dahomey’s Women Warriors | Smithsonian
2011年9月23日 · Jean Bayol, a French naval officer who visited Abomey in December 1889, watched as a teenage recruit, a girl named Nanisca “who had not yet killed anyone,” was tested.
The Real Story Behind ‘The Woman King’: Separating Fact from …
2023年9月17日 · The narrative itself is about an all-female warrior army in 18th-century Dahomey (present-day Benin) led by the formidable General Nanisca (Viola Davis). With its powerful depiction of female...
Is "The Woman King" Movie Based on a True Story? - Oprah Daily
2022年8月24日 · In The Woman King, Viola Davis stars as General Nanisca, leader of a powerful squad of female warriors tasked with defending the African Kingdom of Dahomey. “It was a different state of mind to tap into that spirit—that bravery,” Davis told Vanity Fair of her “transformative” role, for which training involved five days a week of ...
The Dahomey Amazon Women, a story - African American Registry
Also called Mino, or Minon, "our mothers", they were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey. Western observers and historians named them due to their similarity to the mythical Amazons of ancient Anatolia and the Black Sea.
African Amazons – The Real Warriors of The Woman King
On September 9, 2022, Viola Davis leads a star-studded cast in the historical epic, The Woman King. The film follows General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of the kingdom of Dahomey's legendary all-women elite warriors. European observers named them the Dahomey Amazons, after the legendary Amazons of Greek myth.