Airdate: Warrior Women With Lupita Nyong’o

Documentary Warrior Women With Lupita Nyong’o gets a prime 7:30 slot on SBS on Wednesday (instead of trains or British history lessons).

She meets the women who helped inspired military regiment Dora Milaje of Black Panther.

Lupita Nyong’o is about to discover the Warrior Women’s incredible secrets. In this immersive documentary, with extraordinary and unique access, Oscar winning actress, author, and producer Lupita Nyong’o journeys across Benin, West Africa to uncover the remarkable truth behind the women who helped to inspire the Dora Milaje of Marvel’s film Black Panther.

She discovers that an army of African female fighters actually existed in West Africa and are still remembered there as the ‘Agoji’ – or as Europeans labelled them, the ‘Amazons’. As she exclusively reveals in a powerful, emotional, and epic road trip, these real-life warrior women, in armies 4,000 strong, fought African and European powers alike from the 17th to the 19th centuries in the Kingdom of Dahomey, centred in the modern-day country of Benin.

Beautifully shot, this is a searing story of both the past and the present.

7:30pm Wednesday on SBS.