The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the transatlantic slave trade.
Articles on Dahomey
Displaying all articles
The Senegalese-French director is a master storyteller with films like Dahomey and Atlantics weaving the supernatural with the real.
The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living culture.
This movie is absolutely worth seeing. But it’s best viewed with the awareness of its significant alterations of history.
From Lovecraft Country to Black Panther to a statue in Benin, the “amazons” of Dahomey continue to trend in global popular culture.
Top contributors
-
Director of African Studies, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kalamazoo College
-
Lecturer, Global Studies, University of California, Berkeley
-
Anthropologist and Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
-
Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies, University of Strathclyde