{"id":5760,"date":"2020-09-25T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimesgriots.com\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:37:03","slug":"le-roi-behanzin-un-heros-de-la-resistance-africaine-a-la-colonisation-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/le-roi-behanzin-un-heros-de-la-resistance-africaine-a-la-colonisation-fin\/","title":{"rendered":"KING BEHANZIN: A HERO OF AFRICAN RESISTANCE TO COLONIZATION (Final Part)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March 1892, the Dahomeans, struck by famine, attacked neighboring villages and in the process wounded members of a French mission. The French thus had <strong>their justification<\/strong> for a decisive war against Behanzin.<br>The king reasserted his authority over the villages concerned and declared himself ready for war. He called himself <strong>\u201cking of the Blacks\u201d<\/strong> and asserted his sovereignty over his territory, which was not that of the Whites!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>After a blockade of the coast<\/strong> to prevent the Dahomeans from resupplying with weapons, the French began hostilities. From fierce battles to others at Kana, Kpokissa and Dogba, French technological superiority prevailed. The French marched on the capital, Abomey, in November 1892, but Behanzin held out before surrendering in January 1894.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hoping <\/strong>to be taken to negotiate his fate with the \u201cking of France\u201d, he was instead <strong>taken to Martinique<\/strong>, a French territory with a climate similar to Dahomey\u2019s, and with the advantage of keeping him far from Africa. Transferred to Algeria in 1906, he died there of <strong>pneumonia<\/strong>, on <strong>December 10, 1906<\/strong> in the city of Blida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The image of Behanzin as a bloodthirsty, negative figure, spread by colonization, would persist for several more decades. In 1976, however, he was rehabilitated in Benin, the former Dahomey, as a national hero. African resistance and patriotism then welcomed a new member into their pantheon. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source<\/em>: <strong>Nofi<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En mars 1892, les Dahom\u00e9ens, frapp\u00e9s par la famine, attaquent des villages voisins et blessent \u00e0 l\u2019occasion des membres d\u2019une mission fran\u00e7aise. Les Fran\u00e7ais tiennent donc leur justification \u00e0 une guerre d\u00e9cisive contre B\u00e9hanzin.Ce dernier r\u00e9affirme son autorit\u00e9 sur les villages concern\u00e9s et se dit pr\u00eat \u00e0 faire la guerre. Il se dit \u00ab roi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":6761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[477,465,466],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-petit-zaouli","tag-behanzin","tag-colonisation","tag-dahomey"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/A7952654-8865-44C5-8DA6-947202C730A8.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7385,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/7385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimesgriots.com\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}