Dahomey Republic of Dahomey and gained full independence in 1960. It was renamed in 1975 the People's Republic of Benin, and in 1991 the Republic of Benin. The Dahomey kingship exists as a ceremonial role to this day. Early writings, predominantly written by European slave traders, often presented the kingdom as an absolute monarchy led by a despotic king. However, these depictions were often deployed as arguments by different sides in the slave trade debates, mainly in the United Kingdom, and as such were probably exaggerations. Recent historical work has emphasized the limits of monarchical power in the Kingdom of Dahomey.
In Dahomey One "New York Times" report responded to the show by construing it as the initiation of a potential race war, signifying the level of anxiety possessed around the mobility of blacks during the era. "In Dahomey" captures much of the perspective of early 20th-century Broadway. Many songs heavily feature classic vaudevillian extractability and dramatic flexibility. Fewer than a half-dozen songs were topically linear to "In Dahomey"s driving narrative. Only two songs, "My Dahomian Queen" and "On Broadway in Dahomey Bye and Bye", reference location and plot integration. Many songs, such as "Brown-Skin Baby Mine", "My Castle on the Nile", "Evah