A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is ...

The recently released Hollywood blockbuster The Woman King is a movie loosely based on the Dahomey civilization in West Africa that existed from 1600 to 1900. Starring Viola Davis, the ambition of ...

Berlin: The French-Senegalese director’s first film since 2019’s “Atlantics” mulls the meaning of ancient treasures in defining identities When Europe’s great powers raced to colonize a continent in ...

Leonard Wantchekon is a politics professor. Over the past year, he consulted with the makers of “The Woman King,” the new historical drama about a group of all-female warriors from the West African ...