Yeah. Hollywood finally made a movie in old Africa and guess what? Bad guys are still white! ๐
The movie is about poor African tribes fighting against evil white invaders. Who could have guessed it, huh?
Here is a period illustration of a real Dahomey Amazon and one of her enemies. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Dahomey_amazon1.jpg
shareIt seems it is also about African involvement in the slave trade.
https://www.thewrap.com/the-woman-king-review-viola-davis/
The kingdom has been at war with the Oyo Empire, which routinely kidnaps Dahomeyโs people and auctions them off to slave traders. Ghezo is himself complicit in this human trafficking, though Nanisca tries to steer him toward palm oil production as a sustainable alternative for enriching the kingdom.share
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8093700/externalreviews?ref_=ttfc_ql_op_5
Read some reviews. At least one review says the Dehomey are depicted as slavers; selling captured blacks into the slave trade.