The Royal Mail steamship Ethiope, with the mails from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Liverpool Feb. 11. Another of those horrible massacres, which are a disgrace to humanity, had taken place ...

On Jan. 20, 1894, Béhanzin, the 11th ruler of Dahomey — the kingdom in the area today known as Benin — stood before his subjects, fully aware it would be for the last time. Soon he would surrender ...

In 2021, 26 treasures that French colonial troops had pillaged from the African kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 made the long journey home from a museum in Paris to what is now the Republic of Benin.

In Dahomey (pop. 2,200,000), the situation is aggravated by the fact that it once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that “brains are our biggest export”; ...

At only 68 minutes, “Dahomey” brims with plenty of perspectives on what the restitution of these ancient treasures symbolizes and the dicey political implications around it.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to director Mati Diop about her new documentary, "Dahomey." The film follows the return of royal treasures plundered by French forces.

A scene from "Dahomey." Les Films du Bal The character of 26 speaks in Fon, its native tongue and the language it would have spoken when it was taken more than 130 years ago in the war against France.

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.” ...

But Dahomey, flying from the bowels of a Parisian museum to the lively debate floor at the University of Abomey-Calavi, is all about what happens when you come back.

It is the kingdom of Dahomey, the dominion of the great BAD-JA-HUNG, the "King of Kings," as he is styled by his loving lieges, and the seat of the slave trade.