Hwanjile (r. 1740–1774) was a high priest and kpojito ("reign mate") of the African Kingdom of Dahomey, in what is now Benin. Hwanjile was an Aja woman...
a brother. Oral traditions hold that Tegbesu was the son of Agaja and Hwanjile, a woman reported to have brought Vodun to the kingdom. King Agaja had...
skill as a priestess to the vodun (gods). The most famous kpojito was Hwanjile, who reigned with King Tegbesu in the mid-eighteenth century. Bay, Edna...
mother of the leopard with Hwanjile in that role. The kpojito became a prominently important person in Dahomey royalty. Hwanjile, in particular, is said...
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