this British guys colonized us mentally and physically. imagine the audacity to dethrone a sitting king because he doesn't conform with your business values. funny enough they even brought Christianity to us to enslave us more.

Wow

Make our Yahoo boys continue the returning/taking back of our looted money.

oshe11:
EDO has the Richest Culture and Tradition in Africa



Whites love their tales ALOT




PS: Not from Edo

How about Egypt?

Paperwhite:
But histroy have it that the Benin empire was one of the strongest then Meanwhile Afonja ignorantly offered his own Ilorin to Alimi & his descendant.Oluwo of Iwo is also towing the same line now.

Osu, tell us the history of your coward forefathers then we will take you serious

Ellabae:
Oba gha to kpere.

ise

nowpresence:
why does the oba look like a drunk

He looks better than ur ancestors who lived at that time.

lahify:
this British guys colonized us mentally and physically. imagine the audacity to dethrone a sitting king because he doesn't conform with your business values. funny enough they even brought Christianity to us to enslave us more.

religion wad one of the main tool to enslave black nation

naifizzy:

How about Egypt?

Those ones are Africans by name jare

And they are clamping down on yahoo boys. Africa is giving back to Europe.

Are you alright, or you are beside yourself?

nowpresence:
why does the oba look like a drunk

more of these, we need to know our roots.

MENELIK11:


Osu, tell us the history of your coward forefathers then we will take you serious

We don't have emirs in our regions.

why dem no jazz whiteman

This is a history lesson to the mumu fellas that think that Europeans came to Africa to preach the gospel and salvation. They came for the natural resources. Like any other group, they came with their religion. After conquering Africa, they shoved their religion down the throat of Africans. Emeka became Peter. Okafor became Solomon. Oghene became Mary. Left with nothing and no brain power to conquer technology, Africans embraced the new religion and remain comfortable in servitude. I am refined if I bow down to the altar,image of Virgin Mary or crucifix but if I visit the shrine/altar of Amadioha, I become ostracized.

Ebola, guinea pox or AIDS are not the biggest diseases inflicting Africans; it is self-loathing.

*/

Ubijus1:
This is the touching life story of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi who ruled the Benin empire before he was dethroned and exiled by the British.

Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (ruled 1888 – 1897), also called Overami, was the Oba (king) of the Kingdom of Benin up until the British punitive expedition of 1897.

Born in circa 1857, he was the son of Oba Adolo he took the name Ovonramwen Nogbaisi at his enthronement in 1888, every Oba took a new name at his coronation, the name translates as Ovonramwen meaning “The Rising Sun” and Nogbaisi meaning “which spreads over all.”

At the end of the 19th century, the Kingdom of Benin had managed to retain its independence and the Oba exercised a monopoly over trade which the British found irksome. The territory was coveted by an influential group of investors for its rich natural resources such as palm-oil, rubber and ivory. The kingdom was largely independent of British control, and pressure continued from figures such as Vice-Consul James Robert Phillips and Captain Gallwey (the British vice-Consul of Oil Rivers Protectorate) who were pushing for British annexation of the Benin Empire and the removal of the Oba.

A British invasion force headed by Phillips set out to overthrow the Oba in 1896. The force’s weapons were hidden in baggage, with troops disguised as bearers. Phillips plan was to gain access to Ovonramwen’s palace by announcing that he intended to negotiate. Ovonramwen’s messengers issued several warnings not to violate Benin territorial sovereignty, claiming he was unable to see Phillips due to ceremonial duties. Having been warned on several further occasions on the way, Phillips sent his stick to the Oba, a deliberate insult designed to provoke the conflict that would provide an excuse for British annexation.

Phillip’s expedition was ambushed and all but two were killed. Subsequently a military operation against Benin in 1897 led by Harry Rawson resulted in the burning of Benin City, the destruction and looting of the royal palaces, and the deaths of untold numbers of its inhabitants. Although the British had orders to hang the Oba, Ovonramwen escaped, but returned to the city to formally surrender on 5 August 1897. When Ovonramwen returned to the city, after six months spent in evading capture in the forest, he was richly dressed and laden with coral beads and accompanied by an entourage of seven hundred to eight hundred people.

He attempted to escape exile by offering Consul General Ralph Moor 200 puncheons (barrels) of oil worth £1500 [£183000.00 today] and to disclose where his 500 ivory tusks were buried [today’s value: Up to £275,625,500.00] however this offer was dismissed as Mr. Moor had already discovered them.

Ovonramwen was exiled to Calabar with his two of his wives, Queen Egbe and Queen Aighobahi, and died there around the turn of the new year in 1914. Ovonramwen was eventually buried in the grounds of the royal palace in Benin City. He was succeeded by his first son and legitimate heir, Prince Aguobasimwin, who ruled as Eweka II.


https://wakanda.ng/ovonramwen-nogbaisi-oba-benin-conquered-exiled-calabar-british/

wow interesting topic,will read it up when i have enough time

this will prove to you that Bini owns and originate agbada as a fashion

cooljude:
European Empires were very wicked and brute, they sort for total domination of other peoples territory and they decimated the locals either by war or affliction. This and many other stories should be thought if we ever wish to rediscover ourselves as Africans who can actually organize themselves.

Europeans are not wicked what of Arabs?today fulani people are still killing people to take over their farm lands Europeans even pity us sef

nowpresence:
why does the oba look like a drunk

Read and educate yourself.

lululiscious:
I lived in aiguobasimwin when I was in Bepnin.

who ask you?

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grandstar:
I love history

It was just a matter of time before Benin fell into the hands of the British. They should have been reasonable.

What angers me most is the priceless artefacts that took.

Truth be told, they'd probably be heavily under-appreciated if they remained here.

The Benin Bronze head is most likely famous because it was stolen and not for its beauty and finesse

The plan was already laid down and no matter how reasonable,Benin Kingdom would have been invaded under the pretext of something else.

From Jaja of Opobo, Nana of Koko....to Ghana, they were all deposed and exiled. It was a grand plan.

anonymuz:
religion wad one of the main tool to enslave black nation

sure, the most annoying thing is that you see parents telling their wards to stop speaking varnacular and they take pride in their wards speaking the so called "queens English". just imagine calling your ancestral language vanacular when the people you are trying hard to impress don't give a flying f*ck about you, even the afro-british face racism talkless of an Africans in a third world country.

BROS GOOGLE HOW VICE CONSUL ROBERT PHILLIPS AND GALLEWAY MORE DIES

irepnaija4eva:
My own is where were the so called deities when their land were invaded by the white man? .

A whole oba the chief custodian of the land was banished by a foreigner neither the god of thunder or fire not even the village people (witches and wizard) could save him and themselves.
They even went to the shrines and stole most of the sacred artifacts yet nothing happened. No records of any white men going mad or been struck by lightening.....But if na osas or Kufre manage somehow borrow(thief) yams or goat due to hunger,them gods go dey flex muscles abi them dey fear white man face ni?

Infact thunder fire them der ....

Nonsence.

post=68273251:
Oba gha to kpere.

Long live the King!!

Ise!!!

nairavsdollars:
So Benin juju no catch Oyinboman?

Or maybe Juju's power has been exaggerated by Nollywood and our lying uncles?

idongesit88:
but why did all the gods they worship even upto this day not serve that kingdom from oblivion?

Just like God did not save over 6million Jews from Hitler and his goons, like God did not save Christians from the romans or hell the Fulanis. This has nothing to do with God or gods. See beyond the prism of religion

irepnaija4eva:
My own is where were the so called deities when their land were invaded by the white man? .

A whole oba the chief custodian of the land was banished by a foreigner neither the god of thunder or fire not even the village people (witches and wizard) could save him and themselves.
They even went to the shrines and stole most of the sacred artifacts yet nothing happened. No records of any white men going mad or been struck by lightening.....But if na osas or Kufre manage somehow borrow(thief) yams or goat due to hunger,them gods go dey flex muscles abi them dey fear white man face ni?

Infact thunder fire them der ....

Nonsence.

When the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and burnt it, including the temple and the king's house, and carted awsy all the artefacts and took the king into exile, where was the God of Israel?

Ellabae:
Oba gha to kpere.

BUT HES DEAD NOW

helpishere:


When the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and burnt it, including the temple and the king's house, and carted awsy all the artefacts and took the king into exile, where was the God of Israel?

JEREMIAH 18 VS 11.
2 CHRONICLES 36:15-23

Yet those thieves have the guts to refer to the shithole they created as fantastically corrupt. Which nation on earth is more corrupt that the thieving British government. They did it before and they are still doing it today only that they changed methods.

oshe11:
Those ones are Africans by name jare

The ancient Egyptians were Africans. The modern Egyptians are decendants of settlers and invaders who ruled ancient Egypt for 2700 years.