The Legendary Battles Of The Dahomey Amazons (Mature Content)

[@jaama20]

The Dahomey empire was a slave empire that destroyed large ethnic groups and sent their youth to slavery. It was a brutal monarchy

[@oyaami1874]

The British were to slavery what the Germans were murder. They industrialised the process.

[@charlottewalnut3118]

Yup

[@kathybrem880]

Yes it was--this is just a romanticized treatment of the subject

[@YallNotWhite_YourPINK]

Similar to the viking who were know to sexually assault children before killing them. Vikings were also known to eat people

[@ng11215]

Sad but true

[@SamuelAkinbo]

Good job bro! To help with your pronunciation, whenever you see and in West African languages, pronounce them as and respectively. These sounds are a bit close to and in English. However, they are complexly articulated sounds which are unique to African languages. PS: One of the fortresses of the Abeokuta people is called Olumo which means where Olu (God) stopped the fight. There are archeological evidence still present at the site till this day. I was there with my wife two years ago.

[@michaelray689]

That’s dope !

[@iAmaze87]

I have a old roomie Yoruba from Nigeria 🇳🇬 named Gbemisola and i concur

[@ericarichardson2983]

“No history has to be perfect, it just needs to be complete” Truth! More people need to understand that concept.

[@thatbusdriverguy4182]

No human is perfect so history reflects that…

[@johnwebb2442]

Truth

[@darylwilson9124]

Ain't that the truth, my niggas.

[@meliaj1228]

FACTS

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

Just dont enslave other people then cry about genocide. Hyprocisy in particular of black people KILLING THEIR OWN indicate a continuation of savagery .. and please understand THE BRITISH EMPIRE ended the Slave trade, with thousands of them dying ... fiercest .. but the FRENCH BEAT THE DAHOMEY .. please dont get it twisted.

[@halohair1118]

Can i just say besides you always delivering great material i really love how you respect and give credit to our women man. More brothers like you are needed man. Keep it up.

[@maryobundo5554]

Let's don't forget about The infamous and powerful King warriors Shaka Zula I'm in my fifties and remember be filled with awe and pride when as a child watching Shaka Zulu with my family as a major mini series TV movie..Don't forget this movie was before Woman king and blk panther Would love to see a remake of this powerful Zulu King!!

[@dem-ming3417]

We need a new Shaka movie

[@dollarbill6477]

These women were amazing but they weren't used for good very often. Their king was a brutal slave trader who sacrificed hundreds at a time to his pleasure.

[@itsbeyondme5560]

And so. Same as the oyo. They have slaves too

[@skankhunt4588]

Don't put it all on their King. They were just as guilty.

[@isaacdiakite1720]

Real life Amazonian, beautiful Black African Women.

[@AGENT-dl2lu]

In movies they portray us as white smh

[@kingchaos6050]

@@AGENT-dl2lu the Dahomey aren’t the Amazon’s of Greek fiction, but were referred as Amazons by westerners because of their similarities.

[@ronaldtillman173]

That helped kill, enslave and sell many of our ancestors to Europeans!

[@johnwebb2442]

Most definitely

[@macmcc4651]

Beautiful and feminine no. Masculine, brutal and savage yes

[@mamosaditheberamasike9768]

I absolutely loved this video . As a young African women it really inspired me , knowing that women in African society held such high seats in society really portrays African history in a different light and thank for that

[@thedebunker1777]

Africans were the first people in the world to enlist women in the army. This needs to be said and understood. No other culture in the world had enlisted women in the army African history must not be told in a vacuum because it is a part of world history. Africans indeed influenced the world.

[@thedebunker1777]

name them

[@fruitsarelife148]

the debunker yeah because the african man is weaker than other men. Thats why black women are the most disrespected until today. Lack of protection. The african female was forced to fight and is still forced to fight.

[@thedebunker1777]

"Behind every great man is a great woman" Africans are a hardy race

[@thedebunker1777]

spider879 No you are mistaken. commanders don't count because Artemisia lead an army of men not Amazons. all the other examples you mentioned are mythical. but even according to mythology Africans were still the first. Diodorus Siculus proves this when he says the first amazons were from Libya here is the quote "But now that we have examined these matters it will be fitting, in connection with the regions we have mentioned, to discuss the account which history records of the Amazons who were in Libya in ancient times. For the majority of mankind believe that the only Amazons were those who are reported to have dwelt in the neighbourhood of the Thermodon river on the Pontus (scythia); but the truth is otherwise, since the Amazons of Libya were much earlier in point of time and accomplished notable deeds.... Now there have been in Libya a number of races of women who were warlike and greatly admired for their manly vigour" penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3D*.html

[@thedebunker1777]

The Celtic shield maidens are mythical from the folkloric Nordic sagas. The Nordic sagas were influenced by African folklore. According to the link you provided the author says "maybe" there were female warriors in Eurasia.I still stand that Africa was the first and only culture in the world to enlist women in the army, especially as an separate unit

[@culturedsoulz5141]

I’m reading “ Barracoon, the story of the last “Black Cargo “ by Zora Neale Hurston and the main character, Cudjo Lewis ( Oluale Kossola, African name), talks about being capture by Dahomian Warrior. I’m glad I found this video, it gave a better understanding of the Dahomey warriors

[@iridescentlytey4933]

I just read that book last week before studying Benin today for a completely unrelated reason and found out the Dahomey were from modern day Benin.

[@katherinegibson9242]

What did you think of the book? I'm intrigued! I was brought here thanks to the upcoming film "The Woman King."

[@culturedsoulz5141]

@@katherinegibson9242 the book was really good , I recommend reading it.

[@innovruptly1769]

@@iridescentlytey4933 In the 1600's the region was Guinea. The D'Homey are a peoples after a region of Guinea they occupied not a Country afaik the Gedevi peoples occupied the Ahomey Plateau. The Fon are inbred peoples from Togo & Gedevi tribes. The Fon sought territory from the D'Homey Kingdom which led to the conquest of the tribe by the Fon and their enslavement ca. 1600. The Dutch traders from the Cape Colony traveled to Guinea where they acquired labourers to establish the Cape Colony under the VOC ca. 1658. It was during the 1700s with the discovery of the New World that the region became known as the Slave Coast. The Gedevi became a problem for the Fon having been relegated to a caste often employed in service in menial tasks such as grave digging. This caste developed an association with the dead which I summise was the beginning of what the America's refer to as voodoo. Our heritage can be traced to Anna and Evert of Guinea, their Daughter Maria had Family with Bastiaans Colijn. Such relations were common place during the first 100 years of the Cape Colony. Swarte Maria - "a tall slim handsome woman of very dark complexion with European features". Under the South African apartheid dispensation the Colijn descendants were given a "white" racial birth identity. The family produced wine a wine favoured by Napoleon Bonaparte. Tracing the family heritage from modern times reveals a number of other significant impressions left in South Africa' history.

[@shanceeaton9508]

@@katherinegibson9242 the book was good , the Dahomey were evil

[@martym.davies7116]

Truly my grandmother spoke about them, in W. Africa when I was little. At a time when it was Dahomey before independence. Of course I was a little boy, of course I am over sixty ...plus that's all I'll say. I grew up in W. Africa.

[@HH-ry2zn]

Your research and advocacy to educate is much appreciated

[@freetheworld2671]

Western feminist teachings taught us African women were shackled by their men, and were not liberated until feminism ; we need to show them this!

[@plymakkayestudio1827]

LIES AND LIES I am sorry my brother but you need to seek more knowledge. Patriarchy is european made not African AMDE. African women have always been revered as equal and even as leaders. The Haitian revolution ( the first black independent country in the word) happened because of African women warriors. Tante Toya. Adbdaya toya is the femaile who taught Jean J. Dessalines how to fight and he became the emperor of HAITI. We black kings never oppressed our women.

[@giovannipascal4404]

I've been trying to explain this for over 10 years now. but ppl don't listen

[@giovannipascal4404]

@@plymakkayestudio1827 yo thats what he's talking about. i think you misread his comment

[@giovannipascal4404]

its apart of their agenda, they don't want people to realize feminism is the argument between the white man and white women. think about it, if white women were always treated as equal to white men, would there have ever been a feminist movement?

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

@@giovannipascal4404 Its not exactly JUST a white thing, and honestly? Sexism is a systemic disease that has plagued most of our world for countless generations since ancient times. I believe the intensity varies from continent to continent, but it appears that Europe and Asia and eventually the Middle East were massive partakers in this disease, followed by other continents to some degree or another.

[@aravindc102]

People glorifying Dahomey are no diff from Folks glorifying dictators and genocide

[@khaalis1]

I just saw the WOMAN KING. As soon as I got home I started looking up your content. Thanks so much for what you do; it helps brings the truth full circle. I hope more movies come out on topics like this; (even with the theatrical license) it was amazing.

[@dennispatel3188]

Black Privilege - being slavers while screaming of oppression

[@krixpop]

That movie , an "amazing" Lie and absolute evil ...

[@dianasohn2515]

@@krixpop The amazons were only 1/3 a part of the Dahomey army. The king only recruited women to make his army look bigger. He trained these women and bred them. So yes the Dahomey army was a big slave trade per their kings order.

[@Moorknowledge888]

@@dianasohn2515 just because the King ordered it...doesn't mean the women are obsolved of wrong doing. In modern times if your part of a human trafficking ring...all parties involved are guilty and are facing jail time not just the head of the organization

[@krixpop]

@@dianasohn2515 You are right, those innocent misunderstood Dahomey amazons butchering helpless children and elderly that could not be sold into slavery... Please go on !

[@FactsNC300]

This is really good stuff. As a Yoruba, I find this even that much more informative...

[@kayluvsexy]

same here.

[@woodclan90]

Same

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

No one knows why the skirmish began"? probably from selling competing tribes into slavery?

[@neroonnyx3539]

Our mothers, sisters and daughters! May we raise the souls up to live again!

[@Snake-eyes1980]

Amen!!..... I hope I'm alive and in my right mind when this finally happens

[@Tw0tson]

the french defeated the amazons within a few hours, 500+ amazons killed in one battle, french losing 6. lol

[@paulstacey8547]

@@Tw0tson also they were slave traders. Let's not even mention the sacrifices

[@skankhunt4588]

Glorifying those traitors is as stupid. You may as well honor Confederate soldiers too while you're at it. 😡

[@seasonsasmyteacher]

....And to barbarically Kill again? Kevy Michaels

[@jideshow3098]

The Abeokuta side which defeated the Amazon warriors [mainly women] also had powerful women like Madame Tinubu and others.....due to constant wars against, Abeokuta it became the capital of Egba/Egbado Kingdom......when the British first came, the British made a treaty with the King and recognized it as a nation independent from the Oyo Empire........it had it's sophisticated governing system which surprised the British.......a few years later, it joined the British Southern and northern amalgamation .......this became what is known as Nigeria today!!!

[@TheLaosMonster]

by treat, you mean the British tells Ghezo to stop selling slaves?

[@oluwadamilola6233]

You mean same madame Tinubu who is a slave trader and was pissed that the British stopped her trade of slaves? Same one?

[@reportedstolen3603]

@@oluwadamilola6233 the same Tinubu that fought against trans Atlantic slave trade? Once she found out people were being taken from Africa ? Yeah

[@letthemhateprovidedtheyfea9975]

We come from a mighty people.

[@brandmoney]

let them hate provided they fear Mata We are mighty people who forgot who we are.

[@letthemhateprovidedtheyfea9975]

Real Unfortunately that's true. But some of us haven't forgotten who we are.

[@arushanioshaka5600]

Indeed we come from honourable people

[@fruitsarelife148]

let them hate provided they fear Mata should be honored regularly.

[@koudousmoutairou6074]

Monica Payne your ancestors sold those people to wgite people too

[@nayoyoung1165]

This is one of my favorite videos from u ever. Also I'm SO here for the music!

[@monsieurchris1154]

This defeat at Abeokuta left its mark in Dahomean Vodoun culture, as the most powerful spells of protection (against death at malediction) are usually cast on the top of the hill of Abeokuta.

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

The FRENCH ultimately curb stomped these SLAVE TRADERS ... these were just tribes FIGHTING EACH OTHER OVER SLAVE TRADE... they "rid" themselves of enemies who were just competing slave traders of their own people. Nothing more than ancient drug dealers who kill their own today. But you know, let them tell whatever history you want to believe.

[@p_black3219]

Brotha, you know this movie about these women has been looking for something like this and you do it so very well. You should have been a consultant! Maybe this can drive more of the knowing conversation and less of the emotional.

[@iAmaze87]

Youre an excellent teacher of our sacred and almost hidden stories

[@queeagles3669]

As a black woman to my fellow black women we needa get it together we can conquer the world we have no idea how powerful we really are together!!!!!😩🤦‍♀️

[@TwRagnar]

Lol women won't take over shit. You ain't wired too lol just be happy

[@ConsciousFBA]

This would make an awesome movie.

[@koudousmoutairou6074]

Conscious lupita and viola davis are going to play nawi and nansica in a movie relating to the amazons of Dahomey

[@ConsciousFBA]

Awesome I will be there for sure!

[@DrEdmondIkeh]

A movie is currently in production, I think it would be released 2019 I forgot the proposed title but it would star Lupita and Viola Davis.

[@seismicvertigo345]

Koudous Moutairou Shit, they're going to make my people the bad guys 😅

[@koudousmoutairou6074]

@@DrEdmondIkeh you mean the woman king

[@KMantey]

Another wonderful piece! Many thanks Homeboy. I’ll however recommend that you consult a native of the regions you cover as your phonology is awful. You couldn’t get a single word right; from Dahomey, Whyday, Abeokuta, Mino, to Gbeto. I really appreciate your work and would’nt mind helping out (for nothing) I could even explain the meaning of all those words/towns. My mother is Eve (Ewe) originally from Ketu (Nigeria) to Dahomey (Benin) and finally Notse (Togo). My papa’s from the other side, an Akan (Cote d’Ivoire) and (Ghana). I’m from Akropong. As always, much respect to you.

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

The history should be told that these WERE SLAVERS ..they TRADED THEIR OWN PEOPLE. No history has to be perfect , just NOT SHAPED INTO A LIE TO SELL IN A MOVIE.

[@SamFriends]

Here to educate myself after seeing 'The Woman King'..Viola Davis God bless you as you read this. !

[@sofia11011]

Same

[@akwesiboachie9913]

Educate yourself on a 14 minute KZbin video? You'll be missing important details. Read a whole book if you want to get your facts right .

[@The10thManRules]

@@akwesiboachie9913 Recommend a book. Are you recommending a book written the someone from this particular tribe, or an enemy of the tribe (or the enemy of non/anti colonial African history. The devil is a lie, and idiots do his most insidious works.

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

@@The10thManRules 💯💯💯💯💯💯🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@kamdesheru7075]

Thank you again brotha! Love the High Quality of your video presentations very stimulating. Keep up the Good Work!!

[@extin8283]

Where my Benin Queens at

[@cmebans35]

Per research, they were on the last slave ship (Clotilda) to arrive in Mobile, Alabama.

[@nothandomlambo4216]

I think we should address them as "Mino" because it is in their Fon language. We shouldn't call these beautiful and powerful African goddesses using a name given to them by white people. That would be disrespectful.

[@semereabraham6639]

+1

[@LedePat]

True

[@overviewthem]

Agree.

[@werewolf2969]

How is it disrespectful if ur not speaking there language it’s like saying calling America in another langue different is offensive

[@rekietastovall2084]

Exactly

[@Lindamorena]

Finally a movie is being made to depict this tribe. Thank you for teaching us about this 1st

[@bumblediosa2206]

*kingdom. The correct term is kingdom! Thankyou

[@seasonsasmyteacher]

My Beautifully talented brother, I so appreciate the historical information that you share. Warm Regards. Kevy Michaels

[@sugafoot777]

regardless, their story deserves to be told. But yeah, the Dahomey were personally responsible for the kidnapping and selling of other tribes to Europeans for years. They remind me of that old poem, "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me." After they kidnapped and sold so many, to partner with the Europeans, then they had to fight because the Europeans now came for them.

[@naturepower9097]

Bey all kingdom did it leave women alone !! Go ask the French ally’s what did they get when they gang to attack the daomy bey

[@jtfrancis5432]

It would be great if these stories could be made into films. The market is certainly there!!!

[@t.m.3769]

Check out the Woman King film.

[@koudousmoutairou6074]

Yay finally a history of my country. I was born of a mino or n'nonmiton. There is so much to add to this report but this is sufficient enough as you have touched on the overall points in your expose. Again bravo. You have done your beninese family proud assuming you have beninese blood in you.

[@flourishomotola5306]

What country are you from?

[@koudousmoutairou6074]

@@flourishomotola5306 i was borne in Bénin Republic but was partially raised there and grew up in ivory coast

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

Just dont leave out the fact they traded slaves and slaves were made from their own people and SACRIFICES of their own countrymen were made regularly ....

[@koudousmoutairou6074]

@@SuperOmnicronsj44 please don't come to me with the nonsense of slavery. Their people were enslaved by other kingdoms namely Oyo empire. They responded back by doing somewhat the same thing that was imposed on them

[@seismicvertigo345]

@@koudousmoutairou6074 It wasn't the same thing. We don't know Oyo for wholesale slaughtering villages at peacetime, and we don't know Oyo for wholesale slave sacrifice.

[@smadden3933]

I love the quality and consistency of your content!

[@andresanguianozuniga6798]

I love this channel, keep giving us knowledge and wisedom, my friend!!

[@markdavis6586]

This video does not tell the truth. These people were slavers .

[@sjappiyah4071]

Absolutely love Abeokuta as along woth the Nri Kingdom and others they were some of the West African states that stood up and fought against slavery and slave raids, and open their doors for runaways and for ppl to take refuge. HOWEVER, I gotta give a huge s/o to the Dahomey Warriors, Absolute incredible strength and courage 👍🏿

[@lawrencehammersley4945]

They sold slaves. themselves. Tribes they caught.

[@Jimoshi1]

i mean you need to be rly brave to attack 800 french and 500 porto novo warriors with 8000 of your troops and lose horribly killing only 16 enemies.

[@sjappiyah4071]

@@lawrencehammersley4945 The *Dahomey did sell slaves, not the Abeokuta or the Nri Kingdom. Did you even read my comment?

[@integratedboxingsystem8827]

The Dahomey were ruthless slave traders who did mass killings of other Africans... nothing to be proud of.

[@sjappiyah4071]

@Qin Shi Huang I was basically saying despite disagreeing with Dahomey’s actions I respect their militaristic fierceness.

[@mch7933]

When Dahomey was a tribute state to Oyo, Oyo abused them.. it appears they took their revenge on other Yorubas after gaining independence from Oyo

[@bbp2930]

As a Yoruba member this is true the Fon got their revenge but the Fon took the revenge way too far

[@mch7933]

@@bbp2930 mehn the Fon became monsters after their independence from Oyo

[@bbp2930]

@@mch7933 facts the Fon turned into the frieza force after they gained independence

[@oluwadamilola6233]

Abeokuta got the worst of their wrath, meanwhile Oyo watching all these

[@itzsmejw]

The got their ass kicked

[@thomascrownrg]

Outstanding as usual! The continual & overlooked tragedy lies in the fact that, though hordes claim there to be no European Privilege, they have the privilege of being able to trace their heritage...the privilege of being able to understand their lineage, as well as reaping the rewards from the merciless pillaging of their ancestors. Keep spreading The Light!

[@memelachelle2938]

The Women king brought me back. I've been a subscriber.❤️

[@cikidi1]

Great story for us just before bedtime

[@Bobesboy5724]

My heart was felt with a lot of anger and bitterness knowing what these Amazons people did to their fellow Africans. The kind of mindset they had, I mean a mindset which to see your fellow Africans wiped out is not something to encourage no matter what.

[@ronaldtillman173]

FACTS!!

[@corvuscorvi001]

@Choe Elvis, I agree that the Mino and their parent kingdom, Dahomey, were intimately involved in inter-tribal warfare greatly contributing to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However (racial/ethnic) pan-Africanism is a modern myth. Contextually, the Dahomey were ethnically and culturally distinct. Just as European countries (and earlier tribes) and American “indigenous” tribes/nations fought, killed and enslaved others of what we now see as a unified “race/ethnicity” (white/European or “indigenous”), the Dahomey as a distinct ethnicity/culture did the same. The Mino can be admired for their warrior culture, but within the context of their contemporary culture, as a military arm for the Dahomey involved in the slave trade. To depict this any other way is disingenuous (which is a polite way to say a lie). I appreciate your anger and bitterness from a contemporary point of view, contextually (within the context of the time the events were taking place) it was not that way.

[@itsbeyondme5560]

Grow up. Africans are not the same

[@naturepower9097]

No they were betrayed by weakest male so call king lol didn’t u head Sénégale yerouba French friend allies that gang together to fight them? Lol bm with they complex are the weakest link been they weakest link

[@camm8642]

fellow africans this pan african bs is just that bs africans are just as different culturally as europeans this in all together now nonsense is not reality.

[@blacksheep2224]

I would love to see these stories in movies and cartoons so our kids can be exposed to our great pass and not European meth.. wonder women Hercules and such

[@koudousmoutairou6074]

black sheep you can start and i will help as i have a good anount of info concerning the mino

[@auntie9077]

The MINO

[@chazayah5985]

We have to teach dem , the white man will never do

[@kayluvsexy]

you spoke my mind sir

[@ladybug4885]

Then maybe you could do the research and create your own

[@mimir3070]

I am so happy to hear this. My ancestors are from Benin/Togo and Cameroon. I have always been a tough cookie, a Mino. I will continue to show my disdain for the enemy.

[@mariesevere8864]

Loved it. I will continue to support your work. I am always edified and encouraged, because I know where my ancestors have been.

[@ronaldtillman173]

If you are FBA that tribe could very well be responsible for all of the pain and suffering your ancestors had to endure.

[@velynn6575]

We have been fighting each other for centuries .

[@martialmarcos7317]

Lady Vee yes that's our weaknesses. Our riches diversities culturelle and ethnicities were our failure.... fighting against each other to finish all in slavery(even those stay in the continent )... Please never again... one people one love💪💪💪

[@tadblackington1676]

Everyone around the world has been fighting each other for centuries. There is a theory that the industrial revolution took place in Europe rather than in China or India because unlike in latter two Europe was so fractured into competing countries that if one didn't want to adopt a new technology one of the neighbors would and force the issue on everyone.

[@lawrencehammersley4945]

If we look past color and search for kindness and love

[@Suldan932]

Because we're human being fighting killing is human nature and all living............... world war one and two was not started from. Your ancestors

[@thetruedoctrineofchristnet7473]

Looking at this and watching all the boycotts against the movie today says a lot about our society and our own people being so closed minded and oppressed

[@rbiznezz2]

How so?

[@karenvayssie9635]

So you're OK with slavery?? That's the REAL history behind that woke garbage Woman King movie.

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

This weekend I plan to see the film, and some of OUR people would rather this history be forgotten. Our ancestors were not perfect, but we must learn from the past, so that it is never repeated. God, bless you 😇

[@alethiamillner5603]

You are the closest minded one. Do you support slavery then? It is because of the Oogi Dahomey women warriors and others like it that we ever had to endure slavery in the first place.

[@fieldrepresenter]

@@alethiamillner5603 this movie was written by two white women

[@jimmymaximusace]

Origins of Haiti

[@CaptainDiaspora]

Facto!

[@selflove3807]

Yes Haïtiens are originally from Dahomey Kingdom ( Benin republic ) ❤️

[@waytomymakerkarim5908]

Never seen a country like this

[@lazarocedeno5270]

Thanks. Feel very proud of my African ancestry. Thanks for your educational experience.

[@adanna.n]

The bullets couldn’t hit the smoking woman cos her jazz was strong. Back in the day, the hunters were known to be very strong jazz men so the hunter that was able to shoot her probably had stronger jazz, that’s y it worked. She sat majestically cos she had confidence in whatever she had on

[@Chiefagambi]

Can we be friends?

[@adanna.n]

@@Chiefagambi of course 👊🏾

[@solwen]

There is nothing really impressive about the slavers/amazons of Dahomey: They were wiped out by a French bayonet charge (who lost only 6 men) and that's it

[@itsbeyondme5560]

What are you talking about? They destroyed the oyo Kingdom

[@naturepower9097]

No they were betrayed by weakest male so call king lol didn’t u head Sénégale yerouba French friend allies that gang together to fight them? Lol bm with they complex are the weakest link been they weakest link

[@oliverseiler2871]

@@itsbeyondme5560 SLAVERS

[@itsbeyondme5560]

@@naturepower9097 wrong. please don't get information at wiki

[@itsbeyondme5560]

@@oliverseiler2871 same as the british. they took the whole of africa

[@rossjn9885]

This was dope. I will be showing my daughter this when she is old enough to understand it.

[@ronaldtillman173]

Are you going to mention the part about their part in the murder, enslavement and selling of our ancestors to Europeans?

[@Sam-ny9tz]

@@ronaldtillman173 That Part 💯 I am!! I'm not going to lie to make them look good or something to be proud of. I learned all of this as a child as a black American. I don't understand why more black Americans don't know we were sold by our own 🤦🏽‍♀️😫 Reading is fundamental but it starts at home.

[@Terry-Oppong-RN]

I think you should do a video about the great Samori Toure and his empire

[@tanindunn8379]

The dahomey were a militaristic society that conquered villages along the Atlantic coast, then took the prisoners and sold them to European slavers. They also kept slaves for themselves, and would mass execute them as sacrifices during certain festivals. White Europeans, specifically France, ended the slave trade in the area, and because of it the dahomey Civilization collapsed. They were slavers and murderers of their own people. Historical fact.

[@ronaldtillman173]

Truth, but Pan Africans want to conveniently ignore that FACT to uplift their romantic notion of black female empowerment and the victimization of Africans by Europeans. That tribe willingly traded Africans to Europeans that helped build their empire.

[@itsbeyondme5560]

Wrong. They really ended anything. They just steal resources from african kingdoms. They colonized them

[@tanindunn8379]

@@itsbeyondme5560 it's called historical fact. It's not my opinion, it's fact. Not wrong. This is exactly what happened, regardless if you recognize that or not.

[@ronaldtillman173]

@@itsbeyondme5560 Read books and know world history! Your ancestors may very well have been sold to Europeans by this tribe if you are FBA!

[@itsbeyondme5560]

@@ronaldtillman173 I'm talking about the French. They didn't really ened slavery because they colonized Africa. Minos fought other Africans like other Europeans fought other Europeans. So you are wrong

[@oodlebear]

The Dahomy enslaved their own young, and they sold slaves to Europe. I suppose more cultures would have made their mothers and sisters into warriors if they were willing to sacrifice the years of nurturing their young. Didn't the Dahomey die off after getting conquered? I can't remember anything other than their obvious disadvantage of having women warriors fight and train during prime fertility and fitness years, thus low birth rate was guaranteed demise

[@andheardstudios8089]

All Africans sold theirs... But to most , a slave to them was a servant and not what European did in America... A servant could buy their way out. The Africans did not fully realize that the European was not like them... Nor did they necessarily care, but once the African sold theirs I'm assuming they didn't think the American slavery was their future

[@andheardstudios8089]

And the Dahomey existed when America was already established so maybe they were told a different story by the Europeans because what slave returned to tell the horrors of being sold?

[@zur2016]

Nobody enslaves their own people they enslave other people around them all African people ain't the same people there are many different tribes and ethnic groups

[@andheardstudios8089]

After further research of the Dahomey tribe I realized I was wrong and that they were the most brutal amongst Africans, their involvement in the slave trade fueled their empire...they are literally no better than European Americans or British Empires, In fact Europeans tried to stop them from trading slaves and the dahomey refused ...if these African kings didn't sell us to the European we wouldn't under these conditions

[@s.z.407]

@@andheardstudios8089 yup! Truth is important !!!

[@paulstacey8547]

Slave traders are so brave.

[@themoonchariot]

Your channel is truly amazing! Do you have anything on African spirituality that is pre Christianity and Islam?

[@okosuntom2808]

The movie the Woman King brought me to this page.A lot of people have been sh!tting on the movie so i have to get a part of the info here.

[@TekuilaM]

"No history has to be perfect, it just needs to be complete." 👏🏽🔥

[@innovruptly1769]

NB. "Around the year 1800, British inventor Thomas Wedgwood made the first known attempt to capture the image in a camera obscura by means of a light-sensitive substance." Thus, the influence of outsiders on the Coast of Guinea was well established by the time any photographic images were possible. Many of the imprints appear as drawings or like etchings. There are very few accurate depictions of the D'Ahomey prior to 1600 when the tribe was conquered by the Fon. There are no images of Anna and Evert of Guinea and their daughter Maria, the family who were brought to the Dutch Cape Colony in 1658.

[@moshediquel]

Didn’t the Dahomey participate in the slave trade

[@itsbeyondme5560]

Same as oyo Kingdom

[@naturepower9097]

Lol and are they one ? Lol shut up

[@carloshathcock6371]

Yes

[@oliverseiler2871]

@@itsbeyondme5560 so they did, thy

[@itsbeyondme5560]

@@oliverseiler2871 why you care? same as the british. it took a pressure of the united states to put an end of colonization

[@tandafadel1127]

The Amazone of Dahomey have lived many defeated in there Battle against the City of Savè. They finally use strategy. They pretend to befriend them by sending a princess (a spy) to the king of Savè he then accept the princess spy. She gives all the army secret to the Dahomey king and then they enter Savè and start slaughtering. There were no fight since the Save thought there was thruce. They took many of the Save people to Abomey and use their blood to building a room. It's not a myth it is reality

[@raphjacksun]

Where are you from ?

[@tandafadel1127]

@@raphjacksun I'm from Benin

[@naturepower9097]

🔥🔥power to black women 🔥🔥✌🏽

[@tandafadel1127]

@@naturepower9097 i don't see where there is power in that method. They just betrayed people who thought they were friend. There is no power in that

[@Melanin_Move]

I just discovered that there is an Abeokuta, Jamaica. Maybe I've never known it before because I'm not that familiar with that parish. I was really proud 😄. Ok how about this: Brazaville and Brazil? Brazaville seems to have been named in Africa long before.

[@richardgrant8527]

Not abeokuta but aboukir in Jamaica. My country, my land and I know it since I live there. Also of African ancestry and I'm aware that the Dahomey played a crucial role in my ancestors demise as slaves!

[@dmgdondada]

I'm from nigeria and know this places you're calling, the way you pronounce them is very funny😂😂😂

[@lillianjulius3734]

That dosent lessen the information nor is it particularly amusing 😄

[@moneybxndz161]

well tell him how to pronounce instead of laughing

[@Newman2296]

He tried

[@kofi2018]

I really think they used this video for research for the movie The Woman King.

[@bismarckus5745]

We need content like this. Definitely concerning history. Unbiased TRUTH. Just saying what happened. Great channel!

[@kwamenyame1277]

Absolutely and brilliantly beautiful

[@kondwanikadzeya8853]

Where do you get the background music from can you share a link

[@christinewilliams4846]

Boycotting it 💔 Lypita Nyong was working on it and later dropped out because she couldn't handle it because she learned the TRUTH about the slave trade they gave power to by seeling other Africans who were later sold.

[@itsbeyondme5560]

No she didn't. It was schedule conflicts. Plus she did a documentary about them

[@oliverseiler2871]

Slavetraders from africa 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@lawrencehammersley4945]

Remember they also sold slaves

[@evelynjimenez4424]

I truly appreciate your content! As we as people of color love to point our fingers of judgment at select groups but are un willing to own the part we play in our own destruction! And it's easy for us in this timeliness to pass judgment on those in thiers! And the fact is sadly people of color still practice this selling and enslavement of our own just in a modern way! How many post images of people of color in drunken and drug induced states and laugh upon it on social media and then repost it! We are continuing to promote our people as unworthy and low! All for a few more (hits of the pipe) aka likes!

[@halbleavy9900]

You sound like the typical european who gets off on bashing Black people. There's not a race or culture on this planet who has enough high ground to critique us.

[@jahbless4ever]

What is the name of the song with the African drums?

[@ehopson14]

@jahbless4ever, not sure if this is correct but here is the name. You can look it up on KZbin. Name is called, Bliksem Beat

[@oyediabenin5159]

Hi Brother, I appreciate the information that you are sharing. I agree with brother Samuel Akinbo in the area of pronunciation. Having been a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Benin for over 2.5 years, returning this year after visiting friends and my family, and being a lover of Benin, former known as Dahomey, check out your pronunciation of the word Dahomey (Dah-Ho-Mey). There's a hard strong "H" on the second syllable. This would be another sound unique to the Fon (Fongbe) African language.

[@coolstormracismsux3221]

Who cares? We're for the truth. However he chooses to say it.. we understand what he meant. You people nic pick everything.

[@ImpossibleIsNothin]

@@coolstormracismsux3221 It's not nitpicking, it's just constructive criticism.

[@gregoryldismukes]

No Wonder Woman here. Lol

[@bobbycoltrane7552]

Please do another video on the Dahomey Amazons

[@Davida-72]

No wonder I’ve always felt like a black Laura Croft

[@suviseshbharadwaj7206]

These are the OG slavers. They only stopped when Hwhyte Europeans forced them to.

[@naturepower9097]

Yes French alleys shut up king did the slavery and give instructions

[@locojazz5770]

I love the intro!! Always excites me!

[@Eddiebrave1]

The Kingdom of Dahomey was founded by Benin Warriors from Benin Empire now Southern Nigeria 🇳🇬. This is the reason they change their name from The Kingdom of Dahomey to Benin Republic after the got independence from France 🇫🇷

[@frankewanmale4067]

This is a heart felt piece. Mature content. Just how beautiful Africa was is heart breaking. All that culture destroyed and hidden from us, so as to instruct the African in ignorance and demoralization. Moving piece.

[@yautvagouti1437]

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[@Nonplussed]

Can't believe the French beat up da homies 😭😞

[@naturepower9097]

French ally’s (black male always betrayed and jalouse of black women) !! Help them

[@vtecnegro85]

💀💀

[@camm8642]

while black women were helping the slave trade?@@naturepower9097

[@yani2499]

The true power of these women was shown throughout the Haitian Revolution. Even Dessalines undying hatred for the French and strong leadership came from his Mino mother that adopted him. They remind me the Goddess, Sekhmet. The original god of war.

[@Leelahlil]

Yes!!!

[@daddyeyez740]

It also came from the many men around him as well. Stop trying to write Black men out of it.

[@1anre]

We Yoruba are Kings. Awon Omo Oduduwa have participated in positioning West Africa as the Centre of prosperity for 1000s of years now.

[@thehealthbodyfitness]

Can make more african Battles thats was Great keep it up Home Team Keep it up

[@rag0t2010]

Could you talk about the Saharawi before Islam?

[@TheMafalala]

This was incredible to watch. Thank you!!!!!

[@A1MIKE_]

Quick question where do you get your information or truth from?

[@Bananas69420]

Thank you frenchies

[@naturepower9097]

So stop complaining about racism now ally’s of the French

[@monetenglish68]

I see this spirit in my Caribbean sisters. I even see it in myself.

[@kathybrem880]

Those women were enslaved by the rulers-they had no choice in the matter

[@kaleahcollins4567]

So yes even the origin story of Wonder Woman has something to do with the Dahomey women warriors

[@flamehicks5934]

Anyone else try to watch this and the audio kept cutting in and out?

[@mr.safecharliedefensivedri9741]

Excellent would like to learn more. The Black Woman is Power and Strength. I respect her and I will protect her.. I thank you Black Woman you are appreciated

[@auntie9077]

Thank you again for this history section......much to learn !!

[@louisianacookingwithkay]

Thank you for this video

[@greenhornet8262]

I just saw the woman king. Amazing

[@Je_rouj]

Nature is life✨Vodou is life🌞 Bilolo