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A city we call HOME. 🏡Share your favorite emoji.@📸 stuffedbox
16/08/2024

A city we call HOME. 🏡

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📍Where the forest whispers and waterfalls roar 🌳💦 ------------
12/09/2023

📍Where the forest whispers and waterfalls roar 🌳💦
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26/08/2023

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08/08/2023

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📍🇧🇯 THE 3Om ‘AMAZON’ STATUE THAT HONURS THE WOMEN WARRIORS OF DAHOMEY The ‘Esplanade des Amazones’ is a public square lo...
29/07/2023

📍🇧🇯 THE 3Om ‘AMAZON’ STATUE THAT HONURS THE WOMEN WARRIORS OF DAHOMEY

The ‘Esplanade des Amazones’ is a public square located in Benin Republic . It is home to the ‘Amazon’, a 30metre high statue built in homage to the world’s only all-female army. These Amazons belonged to the Kingdom of Dahomey, a West African empire that existed from 1625 to 1894. How they came to be or what their original purpose was, is an unresolved quandary. Some sources claim that they were elephant hunters whose might was redirected to fighting neighbouring tribes and eventually the French. Other sources state that they served as royal guards to the almost erased Queen Tassi Hangbe.

Located in Cotonou, the economic hub of Benin. The Amazon in the statue wields a machete and a rifle reminiscent of their alleged motto, “Win or Die.” As a way of reclaiming its past, and correcting biased historic accounts, Benin has used the example of Senegal’s Renaissance monument to pay homage and engrave the memory of the fearless women that protected and served their native land.

CONTROVERSIES
• The origin of this statue spanks some controversies
1. Some see it as an effort to revive the history of Queen Tassi Hangbé, banished from the constellation of sovereigns of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
2. Others see it as an effort to praise the army of the Amazons created by Queen Tassi Hangbé and rehabilitated by King Ghézo.

but in all one truth remains that this statue is speculated to be portraying the Amazons. The Amazons played a major role in the powerful kingdom of Dahomey, now Benin.

CONCLUSION
•The statue highlights the importance women is of,
especially important given the fact that there are still significant gender inequality issues in Benin.

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