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Nov 30, 2021

LOOTING OF THE BENIN KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD

CITY OF BLOOD AND BONES It was in January 1897 when a young and ambitious man thought it was a good day to die hard. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, a graduate of Cambridge and an official in Britain’s Niger Coast Protectorate named Captain James R. Phillips…

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LOOTING OF THE BENIN KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD
LOOTING OF THE BENIN KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD

Nov 29, 2021

HISTORY OF BENIN KINGDOM

In the interior of the Niger Coast Protectorate, there was an ancient unexplored kingdom. It constituted an area of approximately 4,000 square miles and was not yet under the British administration or trade, even though the British claimed their sphere as part of influence following the Berlin West Africa conference of 1885. In the 13th to 19th Century, it was a Mega community and one of the most socially and politically sophisticated polities all over precolonial Africa. The Bini people documented their socio-political, cultural trends and rich history of their kingdom in their art like most societies did in those days. According…

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