Dahomey Amazons

regiment, all-female military unit
Dem name after
Found by	Houegbadja
Country	Dahomey
Language of work or name	Fon
Tym dem start	1710
End tym	1904
Present in work	The Woman King

De Dahomey Amazons (Fon: Agojie, Agoji, Mino, anaa Minon) na dem be a Fon all-female military regiment of de Kingdom of Dahomey (insyd today ein Benin, West Africa) wey exist from de 17th century til de late 19th century. Na dem be de only female army insyd modern history.^[1] Na dem name dem Amazons by Western Europeans wey encounter dem, secof de story of de female warriors of Amazons insyd Greek mythology.

Na de emergence of an all-female military regiment be de result of Dahomey ein male population wey dey face high casualties insyd de increasingly frequent violence den warfare plus neighbouring West African states. Na dis lead to Dahomey be one of de leading states insyd de slave trade plus de Oyo Empire, wich na dem use slaves for commodity exchange insyd West Africa til de slave trade insyd de region end. Na de lack of men likely lead de kings of Dahomey make dem recruit women into de army. Na de formation of a female-only army unit be a retaliation den maneuver around de forced tribute of male slaves to Oyo each year.^[2]

References

↑ Paquette, Danielle. "They were the world's only all-female army. Their descendants are fighting to recapture their humanity". Washington Post (in American English). ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
↑ Serbin, Sylvia; Masioni, Pat; Joubeaud, Edouard; Adande, Joseph C. E. (2015). The women soldiers of Dahomey (PDF). UNESCO Women in African History (in English). Paris: UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-100115-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-29. Retrieved October 31, 2018.

Bibliography

Alpern, Stanley B. (1998b). Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey (1st ed.). New York, U.S.: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-0678-7.
Araujo, Ana Lucia, & Suzanne Blier (September 20, 2022). "What 'The Woman King' gets wrong — and right — about Dahomey's warriors". Washington Post. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
Bernard, A. S. 1998. Amazons of Black Sparta. London, C Hurst & Co. Bourgeon, F. 1979 – 1984.
Clodfelter, Tim (August 5, 2017). "Play tells story of West African warrior women". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
Dash, Mike (September 23, 2011). "Dahomey's Women Warriors". Smithsonian.com. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
Historical Museum of Abomey. "The Amazons". Historical Museum of Abomey. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
Johnson, Jazzi (February 23, 2018). "If You Loved Black Panther's Dora Milaje, Meet the Dahomey Amazons". Teen Vogue Magazine. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
Law, Robin (1993). "The 'Amazons' of Dahomey". Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde. 39. Frobenius Institute: 245–260. JSTOR 40341664.
Yoder, John C. (1974). "Fly and Elephant parties: Political polarization in Dahomey, 1840–1870". The Journal of African History. 15 (3). Cambridge University Press: 417–432. doi:10.1017/S0021853700013566. S2CID 162286376.

Read further

Bay, Edna G. Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Kingdom of Dahomey. Charlottesville, 1998.
Burton, Richard, A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. London, 1864.
D'Almeida-Topor, Hélène. Les Amazones, Une armée de femmes dans l’Afrique précoloniale. Paris: Editions Rochevignes, 1984.
Edgerton, Robert B. Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
Forbes, Frederick E. Dahomey and the Dahomans, Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey and the Residence at his Capital in the Years 1849 and 1850. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1851.
Grossman, D. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning To Kill in War and Society. New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1995, ISBN 0-316-33011-6, pp. 175.
Holmes. R. Acts of War: the behavior of men in battle. New York: Free Press, 1985.
Newark, Tim, and Angus McBride. Women Warlords: An Illustrated Military History of Female Warriors. Blandford Press, 1989, ISBN 0-7137-1965-6.
Peukert, W. Der Atlantische Sklavenhandel von Dahomey, 1740–1797. Wiesbaden, 1978 (in German).

External links

"The Amazons", from the Historical Museum of Abomey. Archived October 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.

[1] Paquette, Danielle. "They were the world's only all-female army. Their descendants are fighting to recapture their humanity". Washington Post (in American English). ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 26, 2022.

[:0-2] Serbin, Sylvia; Masioni, Pat; Joubeaud, Edouard; Adande, Joseph C. E. (2015). The women soldiers of Dahomey (PDF). UNESCO Women in African History (in English). Paris: UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-100115-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-29. Retrieved October 31, 2018.

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