First Images of Viola Davis in "The Woman King" (2022)

[get these nets]

These bytches?


In 1860, nineteen-year-old Oluale Kossola (Cudjo Lewis) woke before dawn to the screams of Dahomey’s female warriors. They held their gleaming reapers — three-foot-long straight razors — with lithe grace, slicing through the necks of Kossola’s fellow Yoruba tribesmen. At their slim hips, swung the decapitated heads of the murdered. Kossola could not bear to look.”

There are many diasporans with the blood and DNA from that ethnic group. Their cultural markers are very prevalent in places where large numbers of enslaved people ended up.
Haiti definitely. But their genetic presence would be in most if not all countries with history of chattel slavery in this part of the world.
Wouldn't so many of them being victims of the slave trade point to them having conflicts with other ethnic groups? Meaning that at different times they were on opposite ends of the equation.

Neighboring groups are rivals for resources, in the course of history. Why would we think or expect differently for nation states in Western Africa? Your post of the excerpt from Barrac00n reads like it's supposed to be a "gotcha"

 

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Your post of the excerpt from Barrac00n reads like it's supposed to be a "gotcha"

It's supposed to read like "fukk these hoes"

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Let's not ignore that this is ......the Kingdom of...
Dahomey.

I'm sure brehs will get love too

 

[Geek Nasty]

hope they show some ass and tittes in this

I'm actually interested to see what Viola is working with

When she was on United States of Tara she was


Everything else before and after i seen her in she was

 

[qwer]

Dahomey | historical kingdom, Africa




So basically these fools c00ned so hard even the British were like.



Pandering to black women is the wave now so whatever

Yes because they were sold into slavery in the first place and were raised by slave traders that’s how Dahomey was formed

 

[qwer]

These bytches?


In 1860, nineteen-year-old Oluale Kossola (Cudjo Lewis) woke before dawn to the screams of Dahomey’s female warriors. They held their gleaming reapers — three-foot-long straight razors — with lithe grace, slicing through the necks of Kossola’s fellow Yoruba tribesmen. At their slim hips, swung the decapitated heads of the murdered. Kossola could not bear to look.”

Yorubas were raiding and slave trading Dahomey empire during the height of the oyo empire

 

[Burned Verses]

Yes because they were sold into slavery in the first place and were raised by slave traders that’s how Dahomey was formed

Ok? What’s your point?

 

[Buddy]

is she ADOS/FBA?

Is ADOS/FBA even cool with this? You know how weird they get about movie roles.


Wait a minute:

 

[Neuromancer]

Ok? What’s your point?

As though that makes it right. Like come on.

 

[qwer]

As though that makes it right. Like come on.

It gives context and nuance

 

[Big Boss]

 

[old pig]

nikkaz will watch wonder woman but will scoff at this

haa!

 

[Bonk]

Yorubas were raiding and slave trading Dahomey empire during the height of the oyo empire

Stop posting nonsense.

Yoruba weren’t raiding Dahomey for slaves at the height of Oyo empire. Dahomey was an Oyo vassal state.

The Dahomey Amazons were actually the ones raiding Yoruba groups after the fall of Oyo empire, especially the Egbas for slaves and that was the genesis of the Dahomey vs Egba war. And they were crushed by the Egbas.

Let me also add that, of all Yoruba groups, the Egbas had the highest number of people sold into slavery. And most of them were sold by Dahomey. One of the notable ones is Bishop Ajayi Crowder. A lot of the Afro-Brazilian slaves that returned to Lagos were of Egba descent.

Brief history of Dahomey Amazons and slave raiding of the Egbas and the eventual war that ensued:

 

[ThatTruth777]

hmm

 

[invalid]

Yes because they were sold into slavery in the first place and were raised by slave traders that’s how Dahomey was formed

Weren’t the Dahomeys an extension of the Yoruba Kingdom? I thought they were the same people, same origins, just one was in Benin and the other in Nigeria.