It’s amazing the true story of these kick-ass female fighters isn’t more widely known – and in telling it, the film challenges dominant narratives about race, women and power. “Lupita Nyong’o’s investigation into the real story of the all-female army is thrilling, haunting and emotional.
The documentary reveals the true story of the warrior women of Africa is more intriguing and complicated than Marvel’s warriors of Wakanda.
The Agoji fought in armies of up to 4000 women and confronted threats from both Africa and Europe. In the 17th and 19th centuries in the Kingdom of Dahomey (modern-day Benin) there was a tribe of warrior women known as the “Agoji”– or as Europeans called them, the “Amazons”. Even if the officer does violate the citizen’s rights, the officer is protected by qualified immunity.A new documentary with Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o takes us on a fascinating journey as it charts the history of a fierce – but seldom heard of – all female African army. If other officers are nearby, there are policies in place-official and unofficial-to encourage them to back one another up. Absent video, if the officer’s account an incident differs from that of a citizen- even several citizens- his superiors, the courts, and prosecutors will nearly always defer to the officer. At the individual level, a police officer’s power and authority over the people he interacts with day to day is near complete. But perhaps we have entered a police state writ small. And the odds of any single person being victimized by a wrong-door raid, shot or beaten by a cop, or otherwise victimized by militarized police violence are slim to nil. Generally speaking, we’re free to travel. This isn’t to say we’re in a police state, a term that’s often misused. In short, police today embody all of the threats the Founders feared were posed by standing armies, plus a few additional ones they couldn’t have anticipated. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues, but legislatures rarely if ever pass new laws to hold police more accountable, to restrict their powers, or to make them more transparent. “Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose.
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