# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/do-aklin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:36:19.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/do-aklin"
name: "Do-Aklin"
slug: "do-aklin"
description: "A settlement chief whose name opens every royal genealogy of Dahomey, though he never ruled it—the kingdom came a generation later, under his son, built on the ground he claimed."
tagline: "King of Dahomey"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
deathDate: "1700"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.828512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Do-Aklin led a large group of Aja people from Allada onto the Abomey plateau around 1620, planting them among the local inhabitants in what would become present-day Benin. He died before any kingdom took shape. His son Dakodonu later built a palace on that same plateau and began forming the Kingdom of Dahomey, but the royal lineage—the Aladaxonou dynasty—traces back through him. In many tellings he's called the first king, though the crown came posthumously. The details live mostly in folklore; the facts are sparse, but the line is unbroken.