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Oba of Benin begins burial ceremony of mother 49 years after her death
According to Benin Customs and tradition, the funeral rites cannot hold until the current Oba, who was then the Edaiken (Crown Prince), was crowned. The ceremony, which would last until March 27 ...
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Olugbile Holloway On The Return & Significance of 113 Benin Bronzes From the Netherlands
On 19 February 2025, a significant moment in history unfolded in Leiden, Netherlands. A signing ceremony confirmed the ...
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Oba of Benin begins burial ceremony of mother
According to Benin Customs and tradition, the funeral rites cannot hold until the current Oba, who was then the Edaiken (Crown Prince), was crowned. The ceremony, which would last until March 27 ...
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What was life like in Benin?
Benin was a large and varied kingdom ... Once a year, they performed a special ceremony where they swung from ropes and pretended to be birds. Men from all over the kingdom served the Oba as ...
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Inside West Africa's vanishing voodoo rituals — the world’s most secretive and misunderstood religion
The most powerful shrine in Benin is Dankoli fetish shrine. Here, I participate in a voodoo ceremony, where animal sacrifice is standard exchange for personal favors from the spirits ...
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The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times
Olugible Holloway, the commission’s director, traveled to The Netherlands to sign the transfer agreement during a ceremony at the Museum Volkenkunde marking what he said was the largest single return ...
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Oba of Benin releases mother’s funeral program 49 years after death
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Sunday released programmes for the funeral rites of his mother, 49 years after her transition. DAILY POST reports that the Benin monarch who disclosed this in a ...
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Netherlands agrees to return 119 Benin statues to Nigeria
The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin bronze statues to Nigeria, the Dutch embassy in Abuja announced this week. It becomes the first European nation to do so after Germany. The majority ...
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Oba of Benin begins burial ceremony of mother 49 years after her death
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Saturday started the burial ceremony of his mother, Iyoba Omo N’ Ikuoyemwen, Iyoba Ewuare II, with various traditional rites (Iwarinnwin). The News Agency of ...
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Oba of Benin begins burial ceremony of mother
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Saturday started the burial ceremony of his mother, Iyoba Omo N’ Ikuoyemwen, Iyoba Ewuare II, with various traditional rites (Iwarinnwin). The News Agency of ...
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Oba of Benin begins burial ceremony for mother 49 years after death
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Saturday, started the burial ceremony of his mother, Iyoba Omo N’ Ikuoyemwen, Iyoba Ewuare II, with various traditional rites (Iwarinnwin). The News Agency of ...