When any king of ancient Africa’s Dahomey wanted to communicate with his dead relatives, he whispered his message into a captive’s ear and promptly beheaded said unfortunate. Did you take biology?

A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is ...

ABOMEY, Benin -- Some of the massive, blood-red mud walls with their carefully crafted bas-relief images of past wars still stand in this ancient "City of Kings," and cannons traded by the French for ...

Berlin: The French-Senegalese director’s first film since 2019’s “Atlantics” mulls the meaning of ancient treasures in defining identities When Europe’s great powers raced to colonize a continent in ...

Senegal has selected French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winning contemporary doc Dahomey as its submission for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. Dahomey had ...

The fact that the Kingdom of Dahomey, which existed between the 17th and 19th century in present-day Benin, was famous and powerful, is partly thanks to the elite-trained Amazon female fighters.

When a private museum in Benin displayed artifacts from the ancient Dahomey kingdom a decade ago, roughly a quarter-of-a-million Beninese flocked to see the exhibit — a stunning turnout for the tiny ...

A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is ...