A lot of people would be well served reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust…
See why African Americans do not want stolen African treasures to be returned back to Africa
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A lot of people would be served reading period
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
FOH with that bs.
Just Google Oba Esigie.
Btw a lot of those Southern Nigerian ethnic groups are interrelated. There is a lot of cross over between the Edo, Ishan, Yoruba and Igbo and they share overlapping lands.
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Ray D’Angelo Harris
Silky smooth
That is one king, and not the entire scope of the conversation concerning their participation in the Slave Trade. Do you have any source that counters the statements made by the National Geographic about the Benin Kingdom becoming rich off their participation in the Slave Trade?
I gave you a specific source to counter, you return with look up one particular King.
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Not entirely true. Just use the map.
_DC
D.C.
We’ll never beat these muthafukkas..
We can’t stop beefin with each other..
We can’t stop beefin with each other..
Stop being lazy. Do your own research. There are whole scholarly articles written on the subject that explains why the Obas stopped their participation in the slave trade. Much of it goes back to defense and being able to fortify the great wall around Benin. The Obas also saw manpower and production shortages in other areas of their kingdom which led them to the decision to ban the trade.
ReasonableMatic
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Pure Black division.
America wasn’t even the only place people from Benin were shipped off to.
Her logic is rooted in exceptionalism.
America wasn’t even the only place people from Benin were shipped off to.
Her logic is rooted in exceptionalism.
Kenny West
Veteran
This woman supposed to speak for all African Americans? 
she dont speak for me.
Give that shyt back
she dont speak for me.Give that shyt back
You stop being lazy. I actually looked up my point, presented it, and made it easy for anyone else to find it and refer to it. You are the one who is trying to obscure your point in a general "look up this person" statement. So show those scholarly articles.
Post one of those many scholarly articles up so that it can be read just like I posted one up. All it takes is for you to move your lazy hand to copy and paste in the the addy in a quote. This BS you are doing with telling me to search out the answer to your assertions demonstrates so far that you really do not want your point to be challenged.
Oh look it here, another source that states the Benin Kingdom got rich off of the slave trade.
Benin | historical kingdom, West Africa
Benin, one of the principal historic kingdoms of the western African forest region (fl. 13th–19th century). Tradition asserts that the Edo people became dissatisfied with the rule of a dynasty of semimythical kings, the ogisos, and in the 13th century they invited Prince Oranmiyan of Ife to...www.britannica.com
"From the 15th through the 18th century Benin carried on an active trade in ivory, palm oil, and pepper with Portuguese and Dutch traders, for whom it served as a link with tribes in the interior of western Africa. It also profited greatly from the slave trade. But during the 18th and early 19th centuries the kingdom was weakened by violent succession struggles between members of the royal dynasty, some of which erupted into civil wars."
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Edo and Yoruba people shared royalty. Onitsha which is associated Igbo people was actually settled by Benin. Lagos which is largely associated with Yoruba people was founded by the Army of Benin. So yes if you look at the map there is a lot of territorial overlap and interrelatedness among those Southern ethnic groups.