In Popular Culture
Dahomey Amazons were represented in the 1987 film Cobra Verde by German director Werner Herzog. Ghezo's Amazons play a significant role in the novel Flash for Freedom! by George MacDonald Fraser.
The unit is also depicted in (a special edition of, and now DLC of) PC game Empire: Total War.
A segment of QI Series 7 Episode 7 discussed Dahomey Amazons and showed a photo.
Referenced in Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest in the prelude to Part 4 Rebooting System
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