Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
By Edna G. Bay (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French … Continued