popular culture Dahomey Mino are mentioned in the sci-fi novel Robur the Conqueror (1886) by Jules Verne (Chapter XV: A skirmish in Dahomey). Dahomey Mino were represented in the 1987 film Cobra Verde by German director Werner Herzog. Ghezo's Mino play a significant role in the 1971 novel Flash for Freedom! by George MacDonald Fraser. The warriors are also the main focus and written about in Layon Gray's stage play The Dahomey Warriors. The Dora Milaje, warriors and bodyguards of the Marvel Comics character Black Panther, are partially based on the Dahomey Mino. In Age of Empires II: The African Kingdoms and Age of Empires III: The African Royals there is a female unit named Gbeto that is influenced by and named after Dahomey Mino. In the video game Empire: Total War you can recruit Dahomey Mino units if you have conquered certain regions in North Africa. In the Lovecraft Country episode "I Am", Hippolyta is transported to a world where she becomes a Dahomey Mino. In 2015, UNESCO published the comic novel The Women Soldiers of Dahomey as part of their UNESCO Series on Women in African History. As an artistic and visual interpretation intended for private or public use in classrooms, it tells the story of the Mino in connection with European colonial rule in Africa and ends with their legacy for the present-day Republic of Benin: "In addition to the imprint that they have left on the collective memory, the women soldiers bequeathed to the Republic of Benin dances that are performed to this day in Abomey, songs and legends. There are many women soldiers in Benin’s armed forces today. They keep the memory of the women soldiers of the Kingdom of Dahomey alive." "The Last Amazon of Dahomey" is a play in the Booker Prize-winning novel of 2019 called Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo. The Dahomey Mino are the subject of the 2022 American historical epic film The Woman King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Dahomey Amazons are represented as Minos in the novel Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley (William Morrow, July 12, 2022). See also Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Ndongo female military leader who fought the Portuguese) Sources References Bibliography Bernard, A. S. 1998. Amazons of Black Sparta. London, C Hurst & Co. Bourgeon, F. 1979 – 1984. Further reading Bay, Edna G. Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the