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Women warriors of west Africa
Smithsonian has a neat feature on the Dahomey "Amazons"—an elite troop of female soldiers who fought in the 18th and 19th century for the independent African country of Dahomey (it's now Benin). Historian Robin Law, of the University of Stirling, who has made a study of the subject, dismisses the idea that the Fon viewed [...]
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