Stories tagged "Benin City": 8
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High Court of Justice, Benin City: Justice with a Traditional Face
This building and its annexes house the Edo State High Court, as well as the offices of the state judiciary. Several parts of the facade bear relief work by Ben Osawe (1931-2007). His three-story…
Ring Road, Benin City, Nigeria: Oba Erediauwa Square: Busy Central Roundabout, Former Palace Forecourt
This busy center city thoroughfare has an ancient history that periodically resurrects when palace chiefs process through the roundabout.
Oba Akenzua Cultural Centre: Performing Arts and Exhibition Center
The Oba Akenzua Cultural Centre, designed by Nigerian artist Demas Nwoko, is centrally located in Benin City near the palace. Benin's premier venue for plays, video debuts, and other performances, it…
Benin Museum: Art Display, Archaeological Site, Palace Grounds
Benin City's National Museum was, in 1944, the second museum to be established in the country, under the auspices of Oba Akenzua II. He first hosted a collection of antiquities in the palace, some of…
St. Matthew's Cathedral, Benin CIty: Oldest surviving church in Benin City
This prominently located colonial church stands near the ancient market site of Ekiokpagha, where Oba Ewedo faced off against Benin City's republican indigenes centuries ago.
Home of Chief Isekhure: The Remodeling of a Traditional Chief's Home and its Destruction
The Oba's chief priest, educated in Canada, remodeled his traditional home in 1995. Stripped of his title in January, 2017 for offenses against the new monarch, Oba Ewuare II, parts of his house were…
Oba's Palace, Benin City, Nigeria: Site of the Benin Kingdom's Monarchy for Centuries
The present dynasty built its palace on an earlier dynasty's cemetery, incorporating the ancestors who owned the land.
Benin Walls and Moats (Iya): Defense or demarcation?
Four times as long as the Great Wall of China