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| “ | Oyo, can you see this? Your comrades murdered... By women. The Dahomey grow too bold under their new king. | „ |
| ~ Oba Ade's first line in the film. |
| “ | Dahomey has no soldiers man enough, they have to use their women. It is against the Gods. My men will find plenty of use for them. | „ |
| ~ Oba Ade mocking Nanisca and the Agojie's offer. |
General Oba Ade is the main antagonist of the 2022 epic film, The Woman King.
He is the general of the Oyo Empire who desired nothing more than to expand his forces throughout the lands. During his years of raiding many villages, he once took Nanisca as his sex slave and raped her repeatedly, which later resulted in her bearing Nawi, his biological daughter. He serves as Nanisca's archenemy.
He was portrayed by Jimmy Odukuya.
Personality[]
Oba Ade is a sadistic, cruel, and arrogant warlord who had no other desire than to expand his position of power and the empire wholly throughout the lands of Africa. As the ruler of the Oyo Empire, he is ruthless and cunning in leading his men to war with the Agojie and demonstrates his sadism when fighting Nanisca in person. He would even insult the fact that his own men would be killed by the hands of women themselves or how they aren't strong enough to serve him but his men for a different purpose, establishing his misogynistic behavior.
He also seems to possess an agenda of taunting Nanisca, likely due to what he had done to her in the past, and even not taking a liking to her due to her "old" age. He also doesn't seem to care about other Africans he sold to the slave trade Santo Ferreira ran, and even if he did have a partnership with him, he doesn't feel concerned about his stolen cargo situation as if it isn't a concern for him.
Biography[]
While there isn't much to Ade's backstory, it was said that he had desired to expand his power over all nations within his reach and for his Oyo Empire. Ade and his empire had joined forces with the Mahi tribe, including the Igbo tribe, to raid many Dahomey villages, killing innocent people, and capturing them, mostly women, into having them sold and trafficked to a European slave trade in exchange for gaining new weaponry for his army's arsenal, such being bestowed horses and guns such as muskets. At one point, Ade is become the new general of the Oyo Empire. At one other point, he captured, abused, and raped Nanisca when she was young for a long period of time before she was later rescued at some point and later became one of the strongest warriors of the Agojie, an elite group of female soldiers of the Dahomey Kingdom.
However, because she was later pregnant with Oba's child and daughter, Nawi, and with a policy saying that any Agojie warrior becoming pregnant is considered a disgrace and complete expulsion, this ultimately led to Nanisca giving birth to Nawi and placing a shark tooth inside her shoulder before giving her away since then. This would immediately bring more pain to Nanisca as she later suffers PTSD, while Ade continued raiding and enslaving more of Dahomey's people to this day. Recently, a group of Mahi villages kept women there as their slaves before Nanisca and her group took them down and saved the captives.
Ade would later come to the village alongside his men upon investigating what had happened, mocking his men that their Mahi allies were murdered by the Agojie and decided to visit the Dahomey Kingdom himself for an audience with King Ghezo. On the next day, Ade and his men arrive at the palace, where the Agojie were performing a ceremony to get Ghezo's attention, demanding 40 Agojie warriors, "not too old" as said just to taunt Nanisca and if any refusal was made he would take control over Dahomey's port for their trade, which a deal was made that 20 Agojie will be chosen for his slave trade and taken to Ouidah where the source of the slave trading took place.
Upon Ade awaiting his tribute of 20 Agojie warriors as promised before ranting how they are of no use but for his men, instead, he was shown to be offered a basket of his men's heads killed by the Agojie and Nanisca themselves, taunting Ade and his soldiers that Ghezo fears no one as the latter orders his men to come out and fight Nanisca to his advantage. However, they were stopped thanks to Nawi locking the gates as Ade sadistically fights Nanisca before he was easily defeated, with Nanisca and Nawi making a run for it, he orders his men to go after them while in pursuit of killing the two. Luckily, both of them escaped in time. Ade is later seen having a conversation with Santo regarding his cargo taken by the English Navy, which doesn't concern him one bit before reassuring him that he and his soldiers will take Dahomey forcibly while taking the Ouidah's port in exchange for the stolen Cargo.
Ade is then seen leading his large number of soldiers to make preparations to raid the Dahomey Kingdom and kill their people. However, overnight, they are ambushed by the Agojie warriors using ash-leaked trails to kill and explode most of his forces as the battle between the Agojie and Oyo's soldiers begun. Ade is seen leading his men to the battle while he began slaughtering several Agojie warriors and their male allies one by one, however, because the Agojie had the upper hand to their advantage and lost several soldiers of his own, Ade was forced to retreat while taking remaining injured while still alive Agojie warriors for him to sell for the trade spitefully, with Nawi and Izogie with them, still unaware that the former is his daughter. Ade decides to win enough money for him and his survivings soldiers to buy their way because if they return to the Oyo Empire, they will be executed for their defeat against the Agojie and the Dahomey Kingdom.
Upon locking Nawi and a few Agojie in a cell full of abused slaves, Ade would have one of them shown for display, and on the next day, he would have the two set up for the stand. Though the situation escalates when Izogie is killed by one of Santo's men and Ade insists on suggesting to Malik to buy Nawi while she was mourning the loss of her dead best friend. However, on the night Nanisca and the rest of the Agojie raided the slave trade to rescue Nawi and the rest, Ade arrives to witness the destruction of the slave trade as he is confronted by Nanisca as they fight for one last time. During the fight, he played dirty to his advantage to beat and kill Nanisca before she had the upper hand in beating him before killing him once and for all while stating he doesn't remember the very woman he raped. With that, the Oyo Empire had fallen as a result.
Trivia[]
- Ade, despite being the father of Nawi, never once interacted with her throughout the entire film with only a few seconds of screen time looking at her in the eyes and offering Malik to buy her. He never knew Nawi was his daughter, even in death.