 Béhanzin's resistance to the French has been central to a number of works.Jean Pliya's first play "Kondo le requin" (1967), winner of the Grand Prize for Black African History Literature, tells the story of Béhanzin's resistance.Maryse Condé's novel "The Last of the African Kings" (1992) similarly focuses on Béhanzin's resistance and his exile to the Caribbean.