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British Looted Benin Bronzes from the Palace of the Oba of Benin, Dated from the 10th Century, Resurfacing In Europe!

The British invaded and burned down the great city of Benin in 1897. They also burned the massive palace and looted its Bronze treasures, which are now resurfacing around the world, from Germany to Sweden to Holland to USA and Canada!

It is widely believed that numerous Benin Bronzes are still hidden in vaults in major European capitals, with many sold in private auctions for millions of dollars.

The Benin Empire is recognised universally as one of Africa's greatest pre-colonial civilisations.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPiMFHbbFU&t=81s&ab_channel=Bundesliga

OKOCHA'S GREATEST GOAL


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPiMFHbbFU&ab_channel=Bundesliga

saddler:
The artworks are really mesmerizing to behold.

Just see how detailed they are.


Edo will be great again

The technical detail is amazing.

babasolution:
Anytime killings occur in Benue,plateau or southern Kaduna , it's women that are always in the fore front,dealing with the issues,either through protest or media outreach.

The men are always quiet behind their women.

Are we seeing a practical case scenario of an emasculated group of men?

All the men do is gather to bury the victims.

What's the deal with men of these tribes?

You are right.

They need to man up.

Those herdsmen have declared war on them.

FreeStuffsNG:
Ife neighbouring to Benin? Smh. Dey play.

Instead of you to go and read very credible scholarly work like G.Akin Akinola’s ‘The Origin of the Eweka Dynasty of Benin: A Study in the Use and Abuse of Oral Traditions (1976).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971248 you are sharing BBCbitsize and another general link full of cut and paste that has not been peer-reviewed or published by professional historians who combine standard methodology and carbon dating to investigate claims and oral distortions of history like it was in case of Benin.

Who is he? Never heard of him. And showing the book cover of his work proves nothing.

You forgot to mention the link to the National Museum Scotland I posted which said the kingdom was founded in the 10th century.

And it's wrong to dismiss evidence that doesn't correspond to your claim as 'cut and paste'.

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MCG1T0.jpg

https://i0.wp.com/areomagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210403_BKP001_0.jpg

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/616ea19d2000002c478d09bf.jpeg

“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”

- UK Guardian Newspapers
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

FreeStuffsNG:
Please stop arguing needlessly first. Go and read very credible sources , not one freely edited history on wikipedia page.

It's on wikipedia you will see people type funny claims just funny claims like how the Bini packed sand from Bini and dumped it in Lagos when there are several homogeniously Yoruba communities in between and account that there are 100% Yoruba people they met in Lagos.

But for the advent of internet, by now they would have continued with the inaccurate history that the Bini monarch never leaves Benin and with no sacred resting place for him in Ile Ife

It's you talking crap.

Benin existed centuries before Eweka 1.

''The kingdom of Benin began in the 900s when the Edo people settled in the rainforests of West Africa.''

- BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3n7mp3#z8rbg7h


''Edo oral history indicates that the kingdom was founded in around the 10th century and was ruled by a dynasty of kings titled Ogiso, who first established a court in the region of Benin City. The Ogisos also established the beginnings of the palace craft guilds, which led to the development of the kingdom’s unique artistic traditions in ivory, wood and metal.

In about 1200 CE, the Ogisos are said to have been replaced by the current dynasty, when Prince Oranmiyan from the neighbouring kingdom of Ife was invited to take the throne at Benin.''

- National Museums, Scotland
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/global-arts-cultures-and-design/benin-collections-at-national-museums-scotland/dive-in/the-kingdom-of-benin/

FreeStuffsNG:
That @ bolded is incorrect and therefore false. Benin has no history that dates back to the 10th century. You may consult all the credible historical records to confirm, not 'tales by moonlight stories' by those who had tried in vain to review true historical facts o.

FG must sustain the effort to recover these precious works of arts o. Thank you for sharing OP.

Technically, it is actually OLDER than the 10th century,

''The Benin Kingdom was "one of the oldest and most developed states in the coastal hinterland of West Africa". It grew out of the previous Edo Kingdom of Igodomigodo around the 11th century AD, and lasted until it was annexed by the British Empire in 1897.''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Benin

British Looted Benin Bronzes from the Palace of the Oba of Benin, Dated from the 10th Century, Resurfacing In Europe!

The British invaded and burned down the great city of Benin in 1897. They also burned the massive palace and looted its Bronze treasures, which are now resurfacing around the world, from Germany to Sweden to Holland to USA and Canada!

It is widely believed that numerous Benin Bronzes are still hidden in vaults in major European capitals, with many sold in private auctions for millions of dollars.

The Benin Empire is recognised universally as one of Africa's greatest pre-colonial civilisations.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/78/44/47/784447241ceb71314b2a66a4130cb951.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/11/ee/20/11ee206413a4783defee1a839ceda51b.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/dd/40/42/dd404228852d315f5bfca40e71c483fd.jpg

justlovesfarmin:
Abuja residents are seeing the impact of this government. Some roads that were causing holdups needed about half kilometer road constructed to solve the problems.

The former minister left many of such roads half done with construction equipment littered everywhere but this government has been getting them done.

Street lights, traffic lights are working again.

Let them keep it up.

That’s Tinubu for you.

It’s the Tinubu effect.

Tinubu likes to see things work.

That’s how he was in Lagos.

Expect more of the same.

I WONDER IF WIKE WILL FINALLY COMPLETE THE ABUJA MILLENNIUM TOWER 😕

aspabay:
Useless mofos always ready to say bad about your country. Nigeria's navy control is so far highly commendable.

The action and surveillance has reduced theft and piracy on the gulf of Guinea.

No be me go lecture you with facts, Google is your friend.

Nigeria's Navy is doing very well

Don’t mind the idiots. As we are speaking there are Indian sailors under arrest in Nigeria after their ship carrying stolen oil was apprehended by the Nigerian Navy bang in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

matify83:
Nigeria is really not "under policed" with the proliferation of " security agencies" in multifarious forms in the landscape.

It is the absence of shared intelligence and outright working at cross purpose that creates the illusion of an understanding policed state.

There are several agencies with powers to arrest. Infact, the citizens also have a constitutional power to arrest criminals and handover to the police.

I want to believe that crimes and criminality seems to be on the ascendance because justice is not being swiftly dispensed with or seemed to be done in some cases.

Even if you increase the sheer number of personnel without an effective judicial system, we will only be recycling criminals back into the society more hardened.

For those tinkering with the idea of state police, remember it was so in the beginning. Then there was even the native police. All had to be scrapped for this unitary system because of their high handedness and were willing tools for politicians.

What do you think would have happened if some state governors had a police under their call in the last election? You guess is as good as mine.

The police as presently constituted needs to leverage on technology to act as a force multiplier.
CCTV cameras, drones, and automated alarm systems can effectively and efficiently do the work of a thousand police men.

Good points, but I don't think we're quite ready to rely on CCTV and so on, especially in relation to the attacks in rural areas. I think we underestimate the effects of good ol' Boots on the Ground in terms of police numbers.

Flood an area with police and see how fast the so-called bandits disappear into the woods.

It will be very difficult to create the type of synergy you envisage between the police and other security agencies. Their operating cultures and operational capacities are so disparate.

Amazing Conversation with African Footballer of the Year, Victor Osimhen!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0-XT8K3gHU&ab_channel=NaijaBiasFootballChannel

AMAZING.

JUST AMAZING.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvkoA2w3QY&ab_channel=kayvaldo

Jaun2:
Make Dem increase them abhi, d hungry man wey go join police as of today, joined so e go dey see bribe collect.

Spare me this crap.

The reason you are walking free on the streets now and safe in your house is because of Nigerian policemen.

If you think it is that your silly gate or fence that is protecting you from armed robbers, you be real fool.

Those policemen patrol the streets at night in vehicles, risking their lives to keep you safe behind that your ajebota fence and gate.

LET THEM LEAVE THIS MAN TO START HIS REFINERY NAU...?

WHAT IS ALL THIS?

IT WILL BENEFIT THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

STOP HARASSING THIS MAN.

IT'S AS IF YOU PEOPLE JUST DON'T LIKE GOOD THING IN THIS COUNTRY.

HOPELESS SET OF PEOPLE!

Nigeria is terribly under-policed.

Just 300,000 policemen for a population of 230 million people!

It makes no sense.

I read somewhere we have 1 policeman per 6000 people, or something silly like that.

That is totally unacceptable.

Of course, state police is the best option by most people's analyses, to end insecurity, but if the FG is too scared to allow that, then for goodness' sakes, BEEF UP THE POLICE SIZE AS A MATTER OF IMMEDIACY.

By now there should be well-publicised HEAVY RECRUITMENT DRIVES for police officers, with vastly improved salaries and equipment including vehicles.

A MINIMUM 1 MILLION POLICE OFFICERS is what is required to end this nonsense called insecurity, and we must do it NOW!!!!!!

Kushites:
Amazing history we were never taught!

This video has gotten nearly 6,000 likes on YouTube. Amazing stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oy_XT4JDLU&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRigxlrwP1RAe8JHLn1rVSu_&index=5&ab_channel=AfricanHistoryStation

YouTube Comment:

@meenki347

''I'm Korean and I totally agree with your theory. My family is descendent from the Great Monkey King and I believe that is the origin story of our first black ruling class. There are old photos of jet black Korean Aristocrats. However, the black Chinese population suffered two back-to-back atrocities. During WWII the Japanese killed between 20-100 million Chinese, hunted darker skinned Chinese mercilessly.
Then because the black and darker skinned Chinese were the aristocracy, landlords, rich and cops. The opposite of America. They were again pounced upon during Mao's Five Black Categories campaign.
Hence, the loss of the Yellow brown skin the white man first saw when he encountered us in the Age of European Exploration.
I am very proud of being descendent from our black past. East Asians and Africans both have rich and ancient traditions to respect our elders and cultivate education. So, there's a clear commonality like no others.''

matify83:
Are you so full of invectives to make a reasonable counter contribution to the discuss?

I will not wallow in the mire from which your tirade streams.

Continue to constitute yourself a nuisance in a faceless forum

When you wildly tell lies about “no projects in sight” and claim the loans “were looted” with ZERO evidence to back your claims, you are inviting insults to yourself.

So shut up.

matify83:
Enough of these "gbese" we are collecting from china in the name of white elephant projects abeg.

The rail they have constructed for us isn't self sustaining to pay for itself.

The other loans have all been looted with no project in sight.

There was a time I even heard that our iron ore is not even the quality type that's why we are not even exporting it in its crude form.

Shut up.

Always a spoiler coming in to talk rubbish.

“No projects in sight” indeed.

You will see the projects from your veranda or dirty bedroom.

Idiot.

MadamExcellency:
Steel should be a National Security Project. It is a must and we should attain self-sufficiency in steel production.

President Trump declared Steel production a critical National Security products for the USA.

You are right.

BlackhatMentor:
Past Glory

Nothing to be proud about caveman colonies

Low IQ pea brain.

Without those black civilisations of the past which gave us the calendar, mathematics, writing, iron smelting, astronomy, medicine, law, philosophy and the sciences, you think you would be here today typing on your cheap phone?

Ignorant dunce.

Beremx:
who's this werey? Do you have to insult me to make a point?
Anu ofia

Yes I have to because you are a thick-skulled school dropout allergic to knowledge.