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Stoplying:
The true history of the yoruba:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llporKrPsbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2hU-ibkPfg

Tonymegabush1:
Nigerians and their mentality of comparison

smellingmenses:
Jesus Christ is Lord. However the Ooni of Ife is the landlord of Benin.

Tonymegabush1:
Nigerians and their mentality of comparison

samuk:
The bigotry from some of these people is unbelievable. They first argued that Benin didn't have the means to be in Lagos as early as 1603 let alone the 1500s, some even argued that Benin would have had to travel through territories controlled by Ijebus, which according to them would have been impossible.

Toda they conceded that Benin was already well established in Lagos in 1500s, but that Benin literally beg the aboriginal inhabitants for a piece of land to settle in.

Benin that was already building fortified military fortresses with residents soldiers, and walled garrisons that can only be breached and penetrated with help of European made canons as early as the 1500s, will be begging for land? From whom?

At this period in Benin history, the 1500s, the Benin literally believe that the Oba of Benin owns all lands and all body of water that are accessible to the Benin people. This is why when Benin move into any land of interest, they lord it over and any traditional ruler that protest are beheaded and replaced.

Benin history is too well established to be affected by side notes, subjective opinions born out of ignorance, malice and jealousy.

samuk:
When I first presented the 1603 eyewitness historical account of Benin ownership Lagos little over a year ago, it was initially dismissed as a lie, they argued that Benin was nowhere close to Lagos as early as 1603. They called the eyewitness historical accounts a hogwash.

The same ignorant people are now the ones doing lengthy writeup on it after studying the narrative for over a year. They realised that this amongst several other eyewitness historical accounts of classical Benin can't just be discounted by ignoramus, so inserting their bias subjective opinions into what was clearly written in English is their best alternatives. to even think that most of the audience can't read the relevant passages and comprehend for themselves what was written without an ethnic bigots inputs shows the height of their delusion.

Someone that said the 1603 eyewitness historical accounts was a lie over a year ago is now writing opinion filled gibberish as if this will change the actual historical accounts. I hope audience can see how these sets of people have been writing their subjected bias opinions into Benin centuries old eyewitness historical accounts.

samuk:
Apart from the Oba of Benin, every other traditional rulers in that photo was selected, sometimes by politicians. The only one that is born king is the Oba of Benin.

You are right, the sitting arrangements was purely political. When the British arrived Yoruba land in 1824, they met the Alaafin on ground as the leader of Yoruba people but the Alaafin wasn't even in that photo. The Ooni is a political Oba.

samuk:
According to you the Benin told the Portuguese about the king of Ife in the 1400s, yet none of the Europeans who have been looking for their Prester John bothered to travel to Ife for 400 years to verify this Ife powerful king Benin talked about.

The European continuously visited Benin for 400 years and even establishing European stations in Benin and were not once curious enough to visit the founder and supposedly more powerful king of Ife.

Even if Ogane existed, the description given by the so called Benin doesn't match, the name of Ife, location, direction and distance of Ife from Benin. It's a shame that this is all you can hold on to as evidence of Benin/Ife relationship pre 1890.