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Christistruth00:
Ebohon and his party were sent to plead with Ogedengbe . The Esans were the traditional Warriors of the Oba of Benin. Learn your History.
The reason Ogedengbe wanted to punish Oba of Benin was because he was supporting the Ibadan Army while Ogedengbe and the Ekitiparapo were at war with Ibadan.

Around 1878 Ogedengbes Army after overrunning and taking many Edo towns encircled Benin and besieged it and would have overun and taken the City but for the desperate attempts of the Oba of Benin and his Chiefs in pacifying Him.

Many Edo’s still bear the Ijesa Yoruba surname of Ogedengbe today.

Obalufon:
You can't compare your primitive art ...with ife art. Ife art is compared with creeks and renaissance art.. Realism in art is the peak of civilization ..

Christistruth00:
Thanks. The evidence is there, I wanted them to see a little of it. I respect Edos but this 419 lying propaganda History is not in their best interests.

banku:
Some of this people taya me I nor go lie.

You bear their names, worship their gods, gave you Ogiso and requested Oba.

Even your own Oba told foreigners he had Oghene nue. Documents older than the vexed Oba that felt he was slighted, started a book contradicting a Bini son respected as the foremost authority worldwide.

Haba, you guys are not tired of revisions and improvisation to fabricate false imagined history to boast your ego.

Just to contradict what most children learned since primary school. People like me ignored your cravings but that is the reason you guys have not disappeared.

The most embarrassed are the prince and princess still bearing Yoruba names and maintain linqua franca passed to them by Yoruba fathers.

banku:
Some of this people taya me I nor go lie.

You bear their names, worship their gods, gave you Ogiso and requested Oba.

Even your own Oba told foreigners he had Oghene nue. Documents older than the vexed Oba that felt he was slighted, started a book contradicting a Bini son respected as the foremost authority worldwide.

Haba, you guys are not tired of revisions and improvisation to fabricate false imagined history to boast your ego.

Just to contradict what most children learned since primary school. People like me ignored your cravings but that is the reason you guys have not disappeared.

The most embarrassed are the prince and princess still bearing Yoruba names and maintain linqua franca passed to them by Yoruba fathers.

banku:
Some of this people taya me I nor go lie.

You bear their names, worship their gods, gave you Ogiso and requested Oba.

Even your own Oba told foreigners he had Oghene nue. Documents older than the vexed Oba that felt he was slighted, started a book contradicting a Bini son respected as the foremost authority worldwide.

Haba, you guys are not tired of revisions and improvisation to fabricate false imagined history to boast your ego.

Just to contradict what most children learned since primary school. People like me ignored your cravings but that is the reason you guys have not disappeared.

The most embarrassed are the prince and princess still bearing Yoruba names and maintain linqua franca passed to them by Yoruba fathers.

Obalufon:
You can't compare your primitive art ...with ife art. Ife art is compared with creeks and renaissance art.. Realism in art is the peak of civilization ..

banku:
This is why I stay away from this recurring argument that goes in circles.

Whenever an ignorant or slighted Yoruba Oba that points to his father land with his left hand, misstate his importance people like you seize on it to claim history.

If you guys ever went to school, you could have noticed academic proof presented here and other places. But you can't understand them or their significance.

Should I waste my time and ask for evidence about Oba of Bini or Lagos that had to be reminded that his pathernal line was Alagba from Ilesha.

Bini is a branch of a big tree claiming to be its roots. All Nigerians including the Hausa and Sudanese are related. Bini is a tiny part of Yoruba tree spread all over West Africa and the world.

Empty vessels, I have no time for you.

gregyboy:
Both art show realism but benin art was perfect it advanced from sculpture head to plaques which ife lacked it was both for ornament and document which Oyo lacked...it was done with a well refined irons gotten from Portuguese menila
Benin art was more fine with no holes left at the back like ife art was...mostly it wasnt sold like the ife art.....

On this note based on evidence of ooni statue found in benin and benin chief found ife its believed edo was the one who trained ife in art ...

Below is a benin chief what is the art doing at ife

davidnazee:
Which academic proof? Is it the ones written by Yoruba revisionists?
If you Yorubas had any pride you would stop claiming that Benin/Bini is Yoruba.. The people totally rejects Yoruba and have been rejecting Yoruba since beginning of time.. so why can't you guys have pride and stop saying that?
Is it because Yoruba have no legacy or great history so you turn to Mighty and glorious Benin as yours?
You guys are really laughable..

gregyboy:
Ok thought as much...but this was probably all kings meeting in old western region ...this doesnt mean oba is a yoruba man as long he was under the midwestern he was to be present...

And him not sitting at the centre roll was humbilty
Imagine kingdoms under his fathers territories ranked among him like osemawe of ondo,ekiti olowo of owo etc ...i bet if he did fight to be at the centre he would be outnumbered by the yorubas opinons so he decided to humble himself
I guess this humilation and discraced made him vouch not to attend any kings meeting held by the britsh and decides to move out of Midwestern


Get ur fact write ...nice prove but biased storyline

davidnazee:
I dont know if Yoruba arts have any realism about it.. They only have few bronze heads and that is what they keep shouting as great art works..
The unique thing about Benin arts is that it is just not only art works but it also tells stories.. It is like a documentation of Benin history. The art works represents historical events and encounters in Benin History, some tell of different Obas and their achievements, while some represent religious festivals and dieties..
It is this uniqueness of the Benin arts and what they represents that has the world in awe of Benin art works.. Since we could not write on paper, we told our stories in our art works. This is one reason Benin was described has the most civilized and advanced Kingdom in West Africa.

Yoruba art works represent nothing. The only thing you will hear about it will be what type of material was used or what date it was made.. nothing else..
I don't know for certain between the two races who first started making art work, but Benin was better at it.

gregyboy:
Both art show realism but benin art was perfect it advanced from sculpture head to plaques which ife lacked it was both for ornament and document which Oyo lacked...it was done with a well refined irons gotten from Portuguese menila
Benin art was more fine with no holes left at the back like ife art was...mostly it wasnt sold like the ife art.....

On this note based on evidence of ooni statue found in benin and benin chief found ife its believed edo was the one who trained ife in art ...

Below is a benin chief what is the art doing at ife

gregyboy:
Both art show realism but benin art was perfect it advanced from sculpture head to plaques which ife lacked it was both for ornament and document which Oyo lacked...it was done with a well refined irons gotten from Portuguese menila
Benin art was more fine with no holes left at the back like ife art was...mostly it wasnt sold like the ife art.....

On this note based on evidence of ooni statue found in benin and benin chief found ife its believed edo was the one who trained ife in art ...

Below is a benin chief what is the art doing at ife

davidnazee:
Oba of Lagos said he is a Benin man,

Obi of Onitsha said he is a Benin man,

Osemawe of Ondo said he is a Benin man,

Eze of Oguta said he is a Benin man,

Eze of Enugu Ezike said he is a Benin man,

Olu of warri said he is a Benin man,

Ovwie of Okere( Urhobo) Kingdom said he is a Benin man,

Obi of Isele Ukwu said he is a Benin man,

Obi of Agbo said he is a Benin man,

The king of Ibuza said he is a Benin man,

Orodje of Okpe said he is a Benin man,

The Dukes of Oleh and Ozoro( both of Isoko) said they are from Benin,

Udezi( Deji) of akure said he is a Benin man,

The Dukes of Ikwerre said they are Benin men,

The King of Ogbia Kingdom said he is a Benin man,

The paramount ruler of dahomeans in Republic of Benin said he is a Benin man.

These are major traditional rulers in southern Nigeria and beyond and yet some dare open their mouth to denigrate Benin history and even call Edo people a minority stock when history and cultural evidence show Edo is the largest ethnic group in Nigeria until it was decimated and adulterated by the sinister manipulations of the colonialist and their in-house collaborators (Yorubas).

Obalufon:
you are civilized yet you don't have clothing culture fool ...

Obalufon:
visit ile-ife benin dressing culture is from ile-ife ..

davidnazee:
Oba of Lagos said he is a Benin man,

Obi of Onitsha said he is a Benin man,

Osemawe of Ondo said he is a Benin man,

Eze of Oguta said he is a Benin man,

Eze of Enugu Ezike said he is a Benin man,

Olu of warri said he is a Benin man,

Ovwie of Okere( Urhobo) Kingdom said he is a Benin man,

Obi of Isele Ukwu said he is a Benin man,

Obi of Agbo said he is a Benin man,

The king of Ibuza said he is a Benin man,

Orodje of Okpe said he is a Benin man,

The Dukes of Oleh and Ozoro( both of Isoko) said they are from Benin,

Udezi( Deji) of akure said he is a Benin man,

The Dukes of Ikwerre said they are Benin men,

The King of Ogbia Kingdom said he is a Benin man,

The paramount ruler of dahomeans in Republic of Benin said he is a Benin man.

These are major traditional rulers in southern Nigeria and beyond and yet some dare open their mouth to denigrate Benin history and even call Edo people a minority stock when history and cultural evidence show Edo is the largest ethnic group in Nigeria until it was decimated and adulterated by the sinister manipulations of the colonialist and their in-house collaborators (Yorubas).

davidnazee:
You are the fool and very shallow. What is clothing culture? Is civilization based on clothing culture? Are u trying to say Africans were naked till Yoruba invented the so called clothing culture??
You are really an idiot. All your arguments so far has been Yoruba gave Benin oba. Is that how you measure Yoruba greatness by giving Benin oba??

We Edos measure our greatness by our conquests, imperial expansions, territories we colonized, vassal states we subdued, cities we founded and our resistance to European imperialism..
You small Yorubas can keep saying u gave great Benin an Oba or started clothing culture it however doesn’t change the fact you are a weaker race compared to the Edo people and Yoruba kingdoms were weaker than Mighty Benin Kingdom.

davidnazee:
You are the fool and very shallow. What is clothing culture? Is civilization based on clothing culture? Are u trying to say Africans were naked till Yoruba invented the so called clothing culture??
You are really an idiot. All your arguments so far has been Yoruba gave Benin oba. Is that how you measure Yoruba greatness by giving Benin oba??

We Edos measure our greatness by our conquests, imperial expansions, territories we colonized, vassal states we subdued, cities we founded and our resistance to European imperialism..
You small Yorubas can keep saying u gave great Benin an Oba or started clothing culture it however doesn’t change the fact you are a weaker race compared to the Edo people and Yoruba kingdoms were weaker than Mighty Benin Kingdom.

davidnazee:
You are the fool and very shallow. What is clothing culture? Is civilization based on clothing culture? Are u trying to say Africans were naked till Yoruba invented the so called clothing culture??
You are really an idiot. All your arguments so far has been Yoruba gave Benin oba. Is that how you measure Yoruba greatness by giving Benin oba??

We Edos measure our greatness by our conquests, imperial expansions, territories we colonized, vassal states we subdued, cities we founded and our resistance to European imperialism..
You small Yorubas can keep saying u gave great Benin an Oba or started clothing culture it however doesn’t change the fact you are a weaker race compared to the Edo people and Yoruba kingdoms were weaker than Mighty Benin Kingdom.

Obalufon:
Dahomeans say they are edo?...you guys are sick .

HajimeSaito:
All your thousands of sisters hawking their bodies on the streets of Europe are solidly behind you.

Obalufon:
Talk about conquering other tribes.. why are you people so obsessed about yoruba ..talk about nupe ibo ,ijaw .. oyo conquered empires. under its tributary .. your kingdom was busy fighting with little villages

davidnazee:
Idiot, only the King of Dahomey traces his lineage to Benin.. I know it is hard for you to comprehend but it is the truth.. You can research all this claim and you will surely find articles relating to each of these claims..

But why are the Yorubas soooo jealous of the Edos??

Obalufon:
you need mental evaluation .. dahomean...lol.. Do you know the history of dahomean? fon /aja/allada popo people they are offshoot of ife .... laughing here