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Fire And Ire

“I figured, out who this beast in my dream is…it's me. The beast is the girl that has been silenced by the shackles of men…”
– Viola Davis’ character Nanisca

ASED ON A TRUE STORY, (released in September) introduces Agojie, the all-female warrior regiment that protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with fighting skills and a fierceness that ‘the world has never seen’.

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