It is the kingdom of Dahomey, the dominion of the great BAD ... and admires the five thousand Amazons of his body-guard; looks into his finances, counts up his profits in the Slave-trade, makes ...

The elders also highlighted the imagery of symbolically significant animals, such as anacondas, jaguars, bats and herons, as ...

Mati Diop’s brisk, thoughtful documentary Dahomey considers the limited yet necessary good done through restitution.

These modern effigies to mass production and over-consumption carry their own history, gained from both the seller in need ...

Viewers who know something about museum repatriation and the history of colonial interference on the continent of Africa may ...

The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living ...

Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are once again off limits to the public in Benin. By Elian ...

In Mati Diop’s “Dahomey,” the spoils of war speak. “As far back as I can go,” says a raspy yet reverberant voice over a black screen, “there has never been a night so deep and opaque.” ...

In 1892, French soldiers looted a number of totems and treasures from the West African kingdom of Dahomey ... given back a small part of their stolen history. It was viewed as a victory for ...

Her first feature since 2019’s rather startling magical-neo-colonial melodrama, Atlantics, Diop’s doc leaves much unsaid for ...

This is the most important fundraising moment of the year for the Reader. As a nonprofit, we count on donors like you to cover about half of our expenses. The average donation is $45. Many new ...

"November 9, 2021: 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey are due to leave Paris, returning to their land of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. "These artefacts are among thousands ...