Prince Idubor, also known as Arhuanran (sometimes spelled Aruanran), was supposed to be the Oba (King) of Benin because the great kingdom was doing well at the time. However, legend has it that his birthright was given to his younger brother, Esigie, who was born on the same day as Idubor. How It Happened Oba…
I put pen to paper in this white bread with a blazing lamp and an overflowing pool of thoughts. Even though it isn’t as good as Woolwich’s, I like the shelter here. The back window of the house shows the young bronze sun in the morning with a thousand birds streaking below, like moving black…
In 1843, Sarah Forbes Bonetta was born “Aina” to Yoruba parents of the Egbado ethnicity. Her father was the high chief of Oke-Odan, an Egbado village in western Nigeria until he was killed in 1848 when his village was raided by King Gezo of Dahomey, one of the notorious 19th-century slave raiders. In the raid…