I'd certainly heard the term, DeHomie Amazons, throughout the years, but never really thought

much more about the mother than they were, this sort of mythical group of women who did

amazing things.

You might have heard of the Marvel superhero Black Panther.

He's got a cool costume made out of a super strong metal called Vibranium, and he's king

of a secret African country called Buconda, and he's backed up by a team of elite female

warriors known as the Dora Molaje.

Now, most of that is fiction, but the Dora Molaje were actually inspired by the A4 mentioned

to homie Amazons, also known as the Egoji.

But there's a tendency, particularly in American popular culture, to sort of put those kinds

of conversations in the comic book realm.

It's just something that is larger than life.

It's nothing that the average person would ever have experienced.

But the Egoji are having their moment in the pop culture spotlight.

In addition to inspiring the Dora Molaje, they're also the subject of the recent movie,

The Woman King, starring Oscar winner, Violet Davis.

With all this buzz, I wanted to find out who were the real Egoji.

So I called up National Geographic contributing writer, Rachel Jones, who wrote an article

about them, and I got her to come down to the Natuio offices to chat.

And Panther was really an inflection point of sort, to get people to think that before Henry

the Navigator arrived on the shores of the continent in the 1500s, there were actually

self-evolved autonomous people who did their own thing, and weren't looking to Europe for

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