08/03/2024
🌸 Let's celebrate the International Women's Day with TOURA! 🌟✨
Today and every day, TOURA honors the strength, resilience and achievements of women around the world. 💪🚺 Gender equality knows no boundaries, and together we continue to build a more inclusive world.
The celebration of this day of March 8 is an opportunity for TOURA to celebrate Queen Tassi Hangbé, one of the precursors of women's rights since the 1700s!
Tassi Hangbé was the only woman to have reigned over the Kingdom of Dahomey in 300 years of existence! Despite her short reign of 03 years, Queen Hangbé did a lot for the emancipation of women in the kingdom.
She encouraged women to learn weaving, basketry, blacksmithing, pottery...trades previously practiced only by men. She also created the order of Tassi, female dignitaries recognizable by their loincloths placed on their heads.
Tassi Hangbé is also the one who decided to highlight the competence of women in the same way as men by creating the Agoodjiés also called Amazons! These Agoodjiés were not only the elite of the army to whom they set an example of intrepidity, but they alone made up the entire standing army: because male soldiers were only called up in the event of war.
From 1708 to today, the throne of Tassi Hangbé has seen the succession of six other Tassi Hangbé representing the incarnation of the latter and each designated by the Fâ.
👭 Join us in celebrating the extraordinary women who inspire change and leave a positive mark. 💖 Let us not forget that equal rights is not only an objective, but a necessity for the development of a nation. 🌍✊