The Woman King And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The new movie The Woman King tells the story of the Agojie, a real-life group of women warriors who protected a West African kingdom in the 1820s. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, the film stars Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, and John Boyega – and it mixes bloody battle scenes with discussions of leadership and chosen family.

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0:00.0	The new movie The Woman King tells the story of the Agoji, a real-life group of women warriors
0:10.0	who protected a West African kingdom in the 1820s.
0:13.3	The film stars Viola Davis, Tussu Beidu, Lachon Alinch and Jean Bayega, and it mixes bloody
0:19.2	battle scenes with discussions of leadership and chosen family.
0:23.2	I'm Aisha Harris.
0:24.2	And I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:25.5	Today we are talking about The Woman King on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
0:31.0	Joining Aisha and me today is podcast producer and film and culture critic Kate Young.
0:35.3	Hey Kate.
0:36.3	Hi, I'm absolutely thrilled to be back.
0:38.1	Great to have you.
0:39.1	Also with us, Morning Edition producer Mark Rivers.
0:41.4	Welcome back, Mark.
0:42.4	Good to be here, guys.
0:43.4	Thank you.
0:44.4	Great to have everyone here.
0:45.4	So The Woman King is set in West Africa in 1823 in what was the kingdom of Dahomey
0:51.1	that's the southern part of what's now Benin.
0:53.8	Dahomey's enemy was the powerful and well-armed rival empire of Oyo, and their battles had
0:58.6	especially high stakes due to their proximity to the Atlantic slave trade.
1:03.1	Prisoners of war and other captives were routinely sold into slavery or conscripted into
1:07.7	the armies that captured them.
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