Author: GRIOT Magazine

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YZ, about ‘Amazone’ : ‘I searched for the warriors from the past to talk to those from the future’

In nowadays Republic of Benin once lived a female regiment of warriors, the Amazons of Dahomey, women protected by the King itself. Chosen and enlisted for their physical robustness and strength, they were socially equal to men. Fearless warriors, they decapitated their French enemies through the first years of the French-Dahoméenne war.