- The
kpojito was the
queen mother and
consort of the pre-colonial
African kingdom of
Dahomey (modern-day Benin, West Africa).
Beginning in the
early eighteenth...
- is the one with the
first significant kpojito or
mother of the
leopard with
Hwanjile in that role. The
kpojito became a
prominently important person in...
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Hwanjile (r. 1740–1774) was a high
priest and
kpojito ("reign mate") of the
African Kingdom of Dahomey, in what is now Benin.
Hwanjile was an Aja woman...
- is the one with the
first significant kpojito or
mother of the
leopard with
Hwanjile in that role. The
kpojito became a
prominently important person in...
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Queen Ririkumutima - her stepson.
Amongst the Fon
people of Dahomey, the
Kpojito serves as the
queen mother. Traditionally, this
titleholder had religious...
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symbolic strike against Adandozan's legacy,
Ghezo appointed Agontime his
Kpojito (or queen-mother, an
important post in the
Kingdom of Dahomey). Agontime...
- 1017/s0021853700030875. S2CID 165485173. Bay, Edna G. (1995). "Belief,
Legitimacy and the
Kpojito: An
Institutional History of the 'Queen Mother' in
Precolonial Dahomey"...
- Education. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-435-07417-3. Bay, Edna G. (June 1997). "THE
KPOJITO OR "QUEEN MOTHER" OF
PRECOLONIAL DAHOMEY.:
Towards an
Institutional History"...
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course of the
power struggle,
Ghezo had
appointed Agontimé to
become his
Kpojito (or queen-mother, an
important post in the
Kingdom of Dahomey). Due to...
