When Europe's great powers raced to colonize a continent in the so-called "Scramble for Africa" just before the First World War, the tiny coastal Kingdom of Dahomey in the south of modern-day ...

In November 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey plundered by French colonialists in 1892 were returned to Benin, the west African nation that now encompasses Dahomey that gained its ...

Further awards seasons hopefuls also featured in the Lumière prizes, with Mati Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey – which made it into Best International Feature Film (for Senegal) and ...