The purpose of this research is to analyze the condition of women in the 1800s in the Dahomey Kingdom through a movie directed by Gina Prince Bythewood entitled The Woman King. This research explains that there are these strata of the society in the movie, including Slaves, Amazon Dahomey (Agojie), and Kpojito. This research also discusses the women's struggle portrayed by the characters Nawi and Nanisca in fighting for their lives in terms of raising their strata.
This research uses a qualitative method by combining the library research method with a historical approach for data analysis. The data came from the movie The Woman King and the movie script as primary data, and references from several journals and books as secondary data. The steps were taken to collect the data, such as watching movies, reading movie scripts, identifying data, classifying data, and
reducing data.
This research resulted in two discussions. The first discussion is about the condition of women in West Africa in the 1800s in the movie The Woman King, with the background place in the Dahomey Kingdom. The condition of women in
the movie The Woman King has three strata, they are Slaves, Amazon Dahomey (Agojie), and Kpojito. Their life in the Dahomey Kingdom environment in the 1800s differed according to their strata. The second discussion concerns with
Dahomey Kingdom women's struggle to improve their lives by being brave enough to make decisions to determine the direction of their lives and always doing the best
in their life. Evidence of women's struggle for their lives is described by the characters Nawi and Nanisca. The character Nawi is described as slaves who struggles to become an Amazon Dahomey (Agojie), and the character Nanisca
struggles for her living as an Amazon Dahomey (Agojie) who is then trusted to be a Kpojito.
Keywords: Amazon Dahomey, Slave, Agojie, Kpojito, The Woman King