₦airaland Forum

Binidefender:
yes , yorubas never owned it

Benin flown to lagos abi bloody fool?..stop deceiving yourself.. ijebu never claim ownership of Lagos even though they contributed almost 50% of Lagos land mass Eko belongs to the Aworis from ile- Ife ...presence of Benin in Lagos is through the Portuguese explorer and trader that brought a Benin prince to Lagos aboard their merchant ship to Lagos and is only a small portion known as Eko Lagos island

odigbosky:
Na u dy lie bros
Because una marry Yoruba no mean anything. Una go just dy form wetin I no knw. Everybody in the west can know the ooni but for here....na only few people know am. Finish

you dey lie no be small... if you no know am your ancestors know am sha.. i pity your life

odigbosky:
Na u dy lie bros
Because una marry Yoruba no mean anything. Una go just dy form wetin I no knw. Everybody in the west can know the ooni but for here....na only few people know am. Finish

You be slowpoke the prominence oba of Benin has is due to tie with the western region Yoruba because his highly revered as direct son of oranmiyan and part of house of Oduduwa... ibos or Niger delta man don't give a hoot about him .. i pray the country break up you people will be merged with the ibos then you na go sabi.

Greyboy Do you know what IRUKERE is ..that alone is a prove of our equestrian culture

gregyboy:
Izoduwa was nothing to benin....

Neither was it the sole progeniture of the yoruba race he only happened to have been banished by the benins and found is way to ife and yorubas made him the greatest king ever....

Oba ewuare and ewakpe is the only king who had made benin great izoduwa was nothing here get your fact right....

Benins did enough to civilized yorubas ...

Our chiefs were there to guide the onni through and the ooni sculpture was buried in benin

Benin civilize yoruba you would have said edo civilize yoruba,, Benin remain part of ife Yoruba like it or not

gregyboy:
Lol.....funny man
You are using both toaf ans olu137 account nice

First of all ile ife nevered used horse the only people who used horse were oyo as a resukt of migration of the fulani into oyo at late 18c and it was much more later after the death of oduduwa and this horses didnt last....because of thier region so it was quickly forgone


The horse with a man that was mistaken by western historian as benin art
Was actually a benin republic art work not a benin artwork
So young mam no yoruba came on horse to benin

Also because the word “ora" its a yoruba word meaning it was introduce by yorubas to benin or because obama has the word oba meaning nigeria colonized kenya



I dare you prove your point not with only links pictures artefact anything to make it correct

laughing .can't discredit yoruba for being equestrian people the first horse was brought by ife to benin go and do your research ... migration of fulani into oyo at 18century... lol... you are a fool.... oyo katunga was coin out of ibi it le gbeti yo Oyo.. the spot oranmiyan fell from his horse back is where the city is built and named OYO after the even that took place according to ifa

Yoruba has been a focus of research by the whites scholars .. because we are so different ..even some white are trying to drag us into neanderthal shit just to discredit Africa of our cognitive power, even our DNA has alien DNA not known to human ..that should show you we are different from you people..

gregyboy:
What school did you attend so i had be arguing with morons since ....

If you wont revoke this statement or give a credible prove to it , then am done replying you

You should be ashamed about this speech you made if you make this statement outside you will be a laughing stock by your own people

you are fooling yourself mr man do yourself a favor go on internet do your research i said cotton is part of human history for 7,000yrs ..i cant blame you ..7,000 yrs your people are still hairy with tail ..lol

gregyboy:
Wtf young man are you high....

You must be high on cheap drugs ....lol

Yorubas invented weaving machine 10,000 yrs ago i blame the yoruba educational sysytem it is so poor

Kpele you need a sleep 10yrs ke....
Nor b only na 200000000000 billion years ago
Wiseman from the west...dont say this outside please

You are a meat head man..laughing said patron of white cloth Obatala approximately 10,000yrs if not more cotton has been part of human civilization and history for more than 7000yrs fool

come to ile-ife grey boy...you need to see yourself...oni of ife figurine seen in your palace is way superior to all your savage ,scaring head sculptures and the material used is way different to your own alloy .. Edan the figurine is probably a source of occultism power and it comes in both negative and positive one will be worshiping at the shrine other will be buried ...Oni is a living a diety ,god on earth

gregyboy:
History had already said yorubas traded kolanut with the north for textile and beads

I didnt say it...history did


About the fact that said the yorubas
civilized benin makes me laugh... I wonder were the civilization came from....

The ooni of ife hut at ife is it where the civilization came from...

The textile material, you speak of came as far as north africa and was trade in the sub Sahara by the hausas and fulani to every other tribe down sahara the sub saharans (Yoruba's and other tribes ) specialized in dyeing and sewing the textile to what they want.....

Which one of this happen to be the popular yoruba dress called adire".... And the popular benin hairdress(okuku)

Now

The textile was also trade to benin just thesame way it was traded to the yorubas... history made it clear oromiyan didnt rule as a King in benin nor even venture to the palace before he left to oyo....so my Yoruba brothers tell me who brought the civilization

Our chiefs were made a sculpture for to show adornment of our(Benin) contribution to ife....and the ooni sculpture was buried in the palace of benin to show benin superiorty over ife

Benin was divide into guild and one this quild happen to takecare of oba of benin wardrope( Regalia's) and they were incharge making the coral beads and the popular hairdress okuku they are known as the “ewebo"

Please tell me how Yoruba's civilized benin again

Textile came from far north Africa lol Do they even grow cotton"". traded with the Benin likewise yoruba. You won't agree we cloth your forefathers ..You people were jungle trapped you were not known traders back then. ..Yoruba invented cotton spinning and fastest male manual weaving machine till date ..patron of white cloth obatala 10 thousands years ago...

gregyboy:
History had already said yorubas traded kolanut with the north for textile and beads

I didnt say it...history did


About the fact that said the yorubas
civilized benin makes me laugh... I wonder were the civilization came from....

The ooni of ife hut at ife is it where the civilization came from...

The textile material, you speak of came as far as north africa and was trade in the sub Sahara by the hausas and fulani to every other tribe down sahara the sub saharans (Yoruba's and other tribes ) specialized in dyeing and sewing the textile to what they want.....

Which one of this happen to be the popular yoruba dress called adire".... And the popular benin hairdress(okuku)

Now

The textile was also trade to benin just thesame way it was traded to the yorubas... history made it clear oromiyan didnt rule as a King in benin nor even venture to the palace before he left to oyo....so my Yoruba brothers tell me who brought the civilization

Our chiefs were made a sculpture for to show adornment of our(Benin) contribution to ife....and the ooni sculpture was buried in the palace of benin to show benin superiorty over ife

Benin was divide into guild and one this quild happen to takecare of oba of benin wardrope( Regalia's) and they were incharge making the coral beads and the popular hairdress okuku they are known as the “ewebo"

Please tell me how Yoruba's civilized benin again

come to igbo olokun ile-ife i will show evidence.. my forefather bubble glass when your ancestor were still ape like hominid roaming around the jungle hunting for rodents trying to escape evolution trap

gregyboy:
A mere claim once more were is the evidence benin used yoruba beads

The Yoruba of the Middle Ages had 3 methods of bead manufacturing

They used powdered-glass to make beads from finely ground blue, green, and red

glass
They polished beads into shape from broken glass
They drew beads from heated dark greenish and medium blue glass. This method

was considered the most sophisticated and the beads created differ from the

European traded ones found at most sites in West Africa because of their unusual

length, method of production and other attributes.


Evidence exists that the glass used in bead production by the Yoruba was

indigenous to the region . The composition of the cobalt blue and blue green

segi glass used are not found anywhere else in the world. This means that the

glass and the beads made from them were manufactured in Ile Ife as part of the

unique Yoruba glass making industry. Reference : Lankton, Ige, and Rehren (2006)

Mkokelvin:
You can't say Benin are yorubas, but you can say some yorubas have Benin descendants. Some people in yoruba land and bini because it was Benin that loves to Eko not yorubas that moved to bini. So that's the way it is.

they swim to lagos

Thank you somuch my brother, i have learned alot from you .. i have always been skeptical about Benin Ashipa/ Ashikipa claim ...

EmekaBlue:
may Amadioha strike u there under ur brown roof

. I.m not in your poo hole erosion destroyed land Amadilo or whatever you call upon dwell in ibo land ..You are living in my land drinking and eating from the land you say rubbish about ,you are simply destroying the foundation of your family and generation here, the land will consume you with your family if you don't stop saying negative things about the land owners, the Ancestors of the land will destroy you and your family , you know nothing, you are stepping on the land and drinking from it and you fool think the land won't destroy you? " you are funny Mr ibo boy ..You watch from now on ..you've been tagged ,hexed, cursed and caged

countryfive:
Don't be mad at someone for telling the truth
Take it or leave it the ooni does not worship
God.

Useless fellow what do you know about God .Do you know God .. Just stop this rubbish before you use your stinking head carry cobwebs .

EmekaBlue:
no mind those fairy tales

God will punish you bunches monkeys called ibos talking rubbish here on nairaland..if you live in our land and saying rubbish here against our custom and tradition to the extent of insulting our revered king the deity of our land will punish you and your generation

Olu317:
Egypt history cannot be complete without the significant impact of ancient Yoruba migrants' history because Igun(vulture) is actually a sacred bird that spirituality is attached to it as sacred bird in Near East ,where Yoruba's history begun.In fact there are steele inscription, portrait inscription to the fact that vulture is highly revered amongst birds.

On the snake, the Olota remain the custodian of the veneration of the peculiar Python breed, which also has Near East's Egypt's, Indus Valley etc and other Africans connection as well.

The actual dress mode of present Ooni ,which is the reason for the noise makers are even in the same manner in the ancient Near East,which is the reason I mock even the many scholars who had ridicule the might of the ancient ancestors of the Yorubas because these people are actually better than us in the area of creativity and adventurism.


Take for instance, the inscription on Opa Oranmiyan, Commenting on one of the characteristics of hieroglyph writings Siculus writes:

“Now it is found that the forms of their take the shape of animals of every kind, the members of the human body, a implements and especially carpenters’ tool their writing does not express the int concept by means of syllables joined to another, but by means of the significance objects which have been copied and figurative meaning which has been improve upon the memory by practice. “

Slideboom in 2011 notes that around 300 the ancient Egyptians had ways to write numbers. They made one vertical line for on vertical lines for two, and so on up to nin ten, the Egyptians made a U-shaped mark 100, the Egyptians drew a coil of rope, a 1000 they drew a lotus flower. They used as to show 10,000. In the Oranyan obelisk, the shaped for ten and the double U-shaped for twenty are not shown while Resh and Y shown on the obelisk. In view of this arrangement of the nails is definitely not representing any number of years. The nail is not supposed to be counted to determine anything in connection with the years  Oranmiyan reigned. The significance off  the arrangement of the nails can on comprehended if it is viewed from a high perspective as a trident.

What's a Trident?

A Trident is a three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork.

In Greeks myth ,it is associated to Poseidon's . Unlike the Yoruba, the Trident isnt worship but an inscription that's established as Shepherd's authority ,which is Hebraic in inscription

Unlike Egyptian obelisk, the Yoruba obelisk Oranmiyan lacks a pyramidion – the g electrum at the top of an Egyptian pyramid it has a unique design. Dennett in 1910 “Near the centre of the pillar a horn and axe are carved. Above these figures forty-five centered headed nails in three rows had been driven into the stone, on one side of it ten, and on the other side is  eight, while below twenty of these curious still remain.”

Generally, in this modern era, a trident is an or evil symbol. In some Christian mytholog an instrument of the Devil. According to Sy (nd), it is “Called the devils pitchfork,” it symbolized major gods in various pagan cult In India, it is linked to the Hindu “trident-b Shiva, spouse of the skull-bearing goddess

Previously the trident was not at all connected to the Devil. The truth is that, “In many language, the ancients, the sign of trident designate mountains (at the half way from the Gibral the Atlantis City K.M.) tops towering above sea (means an ocean sometimes K.M.).”

The fact that the trident means an ocean links it to an ancient god called Poseidia was the “… potentate of the seas and ocea well as Atlantis. It became Poseidon in Greece, Neptune for the Romans, trishula in etc.” 

The presence of this ancient symbol of Trident of the Oranmiyan obelisk definitely has no connection with all these ancient gods because Egypt where Yoruba ancestors came through, the trident was not a symbol of any of their gods and none of these gods which tridents identified with was worshiped in Egypt.

What exactly is the meaning of Yoruba's Trident?
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The blessed Yoruba people who remained the custodian of human history and the religion of unity !Eshu -Yeshua- savior of mankind!


Yoruba Rocks

We have all the so called Biblical myths in the bible in our history (Ile-ife) from great flood to tower of babel .garden of Eden ..history of giant also prehuman history before we became mortal.. before we acquire mortal flesh, spirit world

TAO11:
Yes my brother. History tells us that a number of migrant groups settled, in search of business opportunities, in the Aworis' Lagos-Island homeland.

NB: It is not only the Binis who came to live in Lagos under the Olofin's rule. There were Ijebus, Egbas, Egbados, Ijaws, and some few others that I can't remember now who also did.

And there is quite some shred of evidence, in present time, which bears testimony to this fact.

For example, "Eko" is a Bini word. It is a later Edo phono-semantic matching of "Oko" --- the earlier Yoruba name which the authochtonous people (i. e. the Aworis) called their collective Lagos Island settlement.

A number of indigenous Lagos Island families till date have some ties with Ijebu, Benin, etc. because of the absorption and intermarriages that had taken place between the authochtonous people (i.e. the Aworis) and these business migrants who later joined in to settle under the Olofin's rule.

Another example which I'm more aware of is in the Ikorodu region. The authochtonous people are significantly Ishagamu settlers (who in turn were Ile-Ife settlers).

Many years later, these people were joined in their Ikorodu homeland by a trading group from Benin seeking to settle permanently in the Lagos region in order to have easier access to the flourishing commercial activities in the Yoruba interior, and in the Lagos region particularly.

The group was lead by a certain Eregbuwa from the ancient Oliha family of Benin. Over time, they became fully absorbed into the Yoruba culture and tradition through intermarriages and acculturation.

But today, regardless of the fact that they are Yorubas, the family still retains some memories (although very faint) of its Benin origins.

This family, by virtue of its very early presence in the area, won the right to the Olisa chieftancy title --- which enjoys the status of the left-hand man of the king, or should I say: one of the two right-hand men of the king?

I am an indigenous Lagosian myself, and I hope that my attempt at answering your question was fair enough.

Cheers!

We are historical people ..

TAO11:
Bro, the Ado who ruled as King in Lagos is not a Bini.

He is the son of Ashipa who founded the dynasty.

And according to the Lagos account (a.k.a. the Awori account), Ashipa is himself an Awori --- of Ife royal descent --- from Isheri.

However, the Bini account has tried to claim him (i.e. Ashipa) as a grandson (or sometimes son) of the then Oba of Benin --- Oba Orhogbua.

A closer look at the evidence has, however, shown that this claim in the Bini account is an outrightly fabricated one.

I also once believed the Bini lie until I found that the authochtonous people themselves (i.e. the Aworis) have something else to say.

And interestingly, evidence turned out to be in support of the Awori account.

good one brother ,,,

TAO11:
Yes my brother. History tells us that a number of migrant groups settled, in search of business opportunities, in the Aworis' Lagos-Island homeland.

NB: It is not only the Binis who came to live in Lagos under the Olofin's rule. There were Ijebus, Egbas, Egbados, Ijaws, and some few others that I can't remember now who also did.

And there is quite some shred of evidence, in present time, which bears testimony to this fact.

For example, "Eko" is a Bini word. It is a later Edo phono-semantic matching of "Oko" --- the earlier Yoruba name which the authochtonous people (i. e. the Aworis) called their collective Lagos Island settlement.

A number of indigenous Lagos Island families till date have some ties with Ijebu, Benin, etc. because of the absorption and intermarriages that had taken place between the authochtonous people (i.e. the Aworis) and these business migrants who later joined in to settle under the Olofin's rule.

Another example which I'm more aware of is in the Ikorodu region. The authochtonous people are significantly Ishagamu settlers (who in turn were Ile-Ife settlers).

Many years later, these people were joined in their Ikorodu homeland by a trading group from Benin seeking to settle permanently in the Lagos region in order to have easier access to the flourishing commercial activities in the Yoruba interior, and in the Lagos region particularly.

The group was lead by a certain Eregbuwa from the ancient Oliha family of Benin. Over time, they became fully absorbed into the Yoruba culture and tradition through intermarriages and acculturation.

But today, regardless of the fact that they are Yorubas, the family still retains some memories (although very faint) of its Benin origins.

This family, by virtue of its very early presence in the area, won the right to the Olisa chieftancy title --- which enjoys the status of the left-hand man of the king, or should I say: one of the two right-hand men of the king?

I am an indigenous Lagosian myself, and I hope that my attempt at answering your question was fair enough.

Cheers!

Good you are Lagosian but history can't be rewrite.. the fact are there historical record will always remember Benin as given Lagos Island a small portion of Lagos king..prince ado came to Lagos aboard a Portuguese explorer ship .No evidence of mass migration of Benin into Lagos .. Lagos is own and populated by aworis centuries before Portuguese brought prince ado to lagos in 15 century.. other tribe joined later in the early 20 century or late 19 century. Lagos is own by aworis and ijebus and anagos .you mentioned ijaw totally non accepted if you had mentioned Ilaje i would go with the ilajes claim because they had long history of naval trade route with the aworis and ijebus for centuries ..where are the nupes tapa and ikoyi from old oyo,. egbas that formed the core population of Lagos with the aworis... Benin can not travel to lagos by foot they would need to pass through the ijebus it means war ,No evidence of it ..It took British a year war

Olu317:
Yoruba ancestors' achivement as at when they Africa as they arrived had never been matched by any group in Africa even the Ethiopian kingdoms or Sudanese kingdoms. Below are facts :

1.The yoruba ancestors thought God to Africans and the world's her religion, which are,Islam,Voodooism, Christianity- extension of Ifaodu(eiphod).

2. Africa worships the Yoruba God called Ora
as Ra in Egypt

3.. The Arabs in the Near East worshipped the Yoruba creator Ela-Ala as Islam's Allah

4.The Yoruba arrived in West Africa and came with their names and language. The Yoruba brought Ifaodu( Eiyphod),some people in west Africa called it Afa.

5. The Yoruba came with Orisa-Risha-Oritse, some ethnicity called it Oliseh.

6.Yoruba came with Peh(pè) to call ,they called it Pon etc.

7.The Britain borrowed words from Yoruba's Abarin and called it Hebrew(to accompany to a place.

8.The Yoruba word which is Kana (same people,same thing) and the British called it Canaan.

9. The English borrowed Yawn from Yoruba yá,á.

10. The English borrowed Iron from Yoruba's Irun-Irin and called Iron.

11. The yoruba crowns with birds , signify power of creation that begun in Middle East or Near East

12, The Rossette found in Yoruba beads or inscribed as a seal on Yoruba's kingly regalia are of Near East origin in which Yoruba's ancestor first lived.

13. Yoruba people helped built Egypt and the record remained there forever because the artifacts found in Egypt when Flinders Petrie has classified these terra-cotta heads with similar objects found at Memphis, and already assigned to the 5th century BC.

14. The Yoruba inscription on Oranmian Obelisk is a Semitic name with a meaning . No other ethnic group have these inscription.

15. Solomon's knot,which is found in Nigeria's Naira is of Yoruba origin.
Lost wax Production:

16. The Yoruba lost wax production was brought to Africa and by the fourth millennium B.C., lost-wax, as well as open- and bivalve-mold cast- ing had been developed in Near East. In the inge-nious lost-wax process the desired image is sculpted in wax, which is then sur- rounded with a clay investment that hard- ens into a mold when baked.

17. A headdress worn by south- ern Mesopotamian rulers in the late third and early second millennia B.C. is a wool cap. These headdress are also found amongst old Yoruba kings,which can be identified in visual Art found in Yoruba land. Research it on Near East history


18. Later in the second millennium B.C. and early in the first millen- nium B.C. a high, fezlike cap was worn in Mesopotamia by nobles and kings. The type of crown are also found in Yoruba land as far back as 1000+ years ago. Research it on Near East history

19. Under the Achaemenid Persians a new crown with stepped crenellations made its appearance. This form, enriched by manyelements such as crescent moons, sun rays, wings, and globes, became the royal crown of Sasanian kings. These kind of crown are also found in Yoruba's kingly crown 11AD. Research it on Near East history

20.Scientific evidence has proven that Yoruba people have no genetic link with pygmy lineage which is present in many ethnic groups in West African population,even with Yoruba neighbours with genetics link to pygmy.


21. Yoruba people in Nigeria have the largest concentration of twin in the World. Even amongst the Republic of Benin, the Yoruba group still maintain this record.


22. The Yoruba word è mí- unshaken, firm as it is , ( dialect) is actually borrowed by English speakers as ‘amen'


23. The said Classic Hebrew which were written 5000± ago is actually Yoruba's language,even with transliteration by the scholars that were employed by king James in 1604-1616 to translate the Bible through Greek translation of the Hebrew scroll to English language.In doubt? Come for the lesson





Yoruba Rocks while others follows.

also significance of Birds and snakes in our religion .. Igun / vulture is sacred to our religion likewise Egypt

TAO11:
Met his match, yet scrapped your ancestors' dynasty for about 1000 years and still counting??

The claim that Ekaladerhan even came to Ife (let alone rule Ife) is a fraudulent claim ---- Atigba, 2019

Lagos belongs to the Aworis. The Aworis kept the Bini migrants in camps called "Eko" in the Edo language.

'


Benin migrantno evidence of it in lagos

The Yoruba of the Middle Ages had 3 methods of bead manufacturing

They used powdered-glass to make beads from finely ground blue, green, and red

glass
They polished beads into shape from broken glass
They drew beads from heated dark greenish and medium blue glass. This method

was considered the most sophisticated and the beads created differ from the

European traded ones found at most sites in West Africa because of their unusual

length, method of production and other attributes.


Evidence exists that the glass used in bead production by the Yoruba was

indigenous to the region . The composition of the cobalt blue and blue green

segi glass used are not found anywhere else in the world. This means that the

glass and the beads made from them were manufactured in Ile Ife as part of the

unique Yoruba glass making industry. Reference : Lankton, Ige, and Rehren (2006)

gregyboy:
This is mere claims ...beads were traded all around africa before the arrival of the whitemen ....yorubas traded kolanut with the north for beads for beads and textile materials ....this is known fact ....


You have to do more research work to lay claims if any beads were ever done in youruba

Africans. are not the same people .. we evolve differently.... clothing culture was brought to southern forest in habitat by the Yoruba.. igbo were not so lucky they were cloth in raffia ..yoruba enlightened the edos brought them out darkness ..itshekiri from remo ijebu enlightened the south south lukumi from Akure contributed to the south south genetically
also the wave of Yoruba from Benin to onitcha ado gave them lil enlightenment

gregyboy:
This is mere claims ...beads were traded all around africa before the arrival of the whitemen ....yorubas traded kolanut with the north for beads for beads and textile materials ....this is known fact ....


You have to do more research work to lay claims if any beads were ever done in youruba

which north lol... you mean Hausa.. you are fucking idiot the stones used in production of glass beads were local native to our region.. Every deity has its own beads do your research Mr Edo.. we are superior to you people, without the yorubas your forefather will have no cloth to cover their nasty ass.. i guess you mean the bones and nut beads stick beads your ancestor were using before the coming of oranmiyan... Even ivory crafting were done by the Owos for Benin royal palace

Atigba:
You disagreed and argued is true Ekerladehan is the progenitor of the yoruba race. That you believed all Edo account of oduduwa.


We sold Aworis as slave in Eko

Whenever you re ready to leave methodology alone, then we can have a logical discussion.

Yorubas are our slaves

Ekerladahan founded Ille Ife

You sold aworis as slave in Eko... huh Lie .. How did you people get to Lagos? i know your forefathers were not evolved enough to tame beast of burden ... your forefathers can not sail to Lagos or trek to Lagos on foot ...Yoruba were able to Migrate and travel wide and far because we are equestrian people we've been taming beast of burden for thousands of years Yoruba are unique people because we are seafarers ,Arid/ desert and forest people

Atigba:
I don't lie, every thing I ever told you is true

The Oba of Benin is a native of Ille Ife and Awori people are from Benin. You said you are Awori that time.

Why are you not answering my email?

You people are fooling yourselves with your distorted mind and delusion of grandeur, fake self appraisal ..Awori are from Benin? total rubbish..Aworis are from ile- ife with solid evidence and record at ile-ife ..Laughing from ear to ear ..No evidence of migration route taken to Lagos by the Benin or edo they could possibly flown over the ijebus and the ilajes ''haha!!! ..First Benin in Lagos Island was prince Ado brought to Lagos aboard ship by the Portuguese sailor/explorer...With the Help of the Portuguese and his royal status as direct descendant of Oranmiyan he was made king, "Eko Ele'Eko of Eko known as Lagos Island , he could relate with the locals the aworis fluently in Ede-ife or Yoruba because he was prince and language spoken in the Benin palace was Yoruba .

TAO11:
Of course!

Thanks bro

TAO11:
Coral beads are mined from oceans.

They were introduced to the Binis by the Portuguese in the late 1400s. I am glad you admitted this.

Provide your evidence for bead production in Benin kingdom prior to the 1400s. Impossible!

The so-called Evie and Ekan were not used in Benin until the late 1400s.

Ile-Ife, on the other hand, has been using, producing, and exporting beads to North Africa since as early as the 1100s, and in fact centuries earlier.

I kind of pity you now.

yoruba traders were known as far as Morocco Sudan, Mauritanian mail we were known for our coral beads..our history didn't start with coming of the Europeans...

[quote author=gregyboy post=82724235]No the ife beads were originally different from the benin beads ife beads were made of Stone's and brownish in nature ...

Some were gotten from the north particularly the beads the muslim use for their prayers the benin beads were very different from the ife beads

The Yoruba's slaves taken from nigeria to brazil had some of the original yoruba beads and they were brown and was like Stone's[/quote



You are fucking liar gregyboy your people can't even cloth yourselves everything good about your people were brought by Yoruba tell me how Benin beads are made.... every deity has it own unique type of Beads in Yoruba land we make beads in rainbow colors