Editing Dahomey (section)

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last=Alpern |first=Stanley B. |title=Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |year=1999 |isbn=0814706789 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/amazonsofblacksp0000alpe |quote= }} In-depth description of the fighting methods of these warriors.
*{{cite book |last=Bay|first=Edna G.|title=Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey |publisher=University of Virginia Press |location=Charlottesville |year=1999 |isbn=978-0813917924 }} A historical study of how royal power maintained itself in Dahomey. Bay and Alpern disagree in their interpretation of the women warriors.
*{{cite book |last=Bay|first=Edna G.|title=Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art|publisher=University of Illinois Press |location=Champaign |year=2008 |isbn=978-0252032554|quote= }} Dahomean artistic and cultural history seen through the development (up to the present) of a single ceremonial object, the ''Asen''.
*{{cite book |last=Law|first=Robin|title=Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'Port', 1727–1892 |publisher=Ohio University Press |location=Athens|year=2004 |isbn=978-0821415726}} An academic study of the commercial role of Ouidah in the slave trade.
*{{cite book |last=Mama|first=Raouf|title=Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin |publisher=Linnet Books |location=North Haven, CT|year=1997 |isbn=0208024697 }} Folktales of the Fon people, including legends of old Dahomey.
*{{cite book |author1=Pique, Francesca |author2=Leslie H. Rainer |title=Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls |publisher=Getty Publications |location=Los Angeles |year=2000 |isbn=978-0892365692 |url=https://archive.org/details/palacesculptures00piqu }} Illustrated volume describing the royal palace in Abomey and its bas-reliefs, with a lot of information on the cultural and social history of Dahomey.
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MdI8DYItvg8C&q=gbs_navlinks_s|last1=Thornton |first1=John Kelly|author-link=John Thornton (historian)|year=1999|title=Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800|publisher=[[Psychology Press]] |isbn=978-1857283921}}