AHOSI (AMAZONS) OF DAHOMEY\THE WOMAN KING: History vs. Hollywood

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The Ahosi (Amazons) of Dahomey were a military corps of women appointed to serve in battles under the direction of the Fon king, who ruled over a nation that included much of present-day southern Togo and southern Benin. They emerged during the Eighteenth Century and were finally suppressed during the 1890s. The Amazons were chosen from among the nominal wives of the king, called “Ahosi.” Estimates of the number of women soldiers vary by accounts, yet some scholars believe the numbers to have ranged over time from several hundred to a few thousand women soldiers.

The Fon women’s army had three main wings: the right and left wings, and the elite center wing or Fanti. Each of these wings had five subgroups: the artillery women, the elephant huntresses, the musket-bearing frontline group, the razor women, and the archers. They served in battles in conjunction with male troops.

These women soldiers had extensive training and drilling. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Amazons used flintlock muskets. They also used cannon, and later modern artillery and machine guns. Subject to celibacy under pain of death, they could not marry once they became Amazons nor could they have children. In addition to their military duties, the Amazons also had daily occupations within the royal household. These occupations included indigo dyeing, weaving and selling mats, palm oil production and distribution, as well as sewing and embroidering cotton cloth.

For much of its existence during the late Nineteenth Century, the Dahomey kingdom thrived on the slave trade. Much debate exists on whether the slave trade itself fueled Dahomey’s wars with its neighboring nations or merely exploited and exacerbated existing conflicts. Dahomey’s Atlantic slave trade formally ended in 1865 with the antislavery patrols of the British Navy and by the Spanish government’s closure of Cuban ports to slave traders. The trans-Saharan slave trade, however, continued as late as May 1892 with a market in North Africa.

As early as 1728, under the direction of King Gezo, the Dahomian Army, which now included the Amazons, conquered the kingdoms of Whydah and Popos. In 1840, they helped to capture the fortress of the Mahee at Attahapahms...

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