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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1017/s0021853700030875. S2CID 165485173. Bay, Edna G. (1995). "Belief, Legitimacy and the Kpojito: An Institutional History of the 'Queen Mother' in Precolonial Dahomey"...
- symbolic strike against Adandozan's legacy, Ghezo appointed Agontime his Kpojito (or queen-mother, an important post in the Kingdom of Dahomey). Agontime...
- Queen Ririkumutima - her stepson. Amongst the Fon people of Dahomey, the Kpojito serves as the queen mother. Traditionally, this titleholder had religious...
- 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"...