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Benin City’s Bronze Artists Cling To Centuries-Old Techniques

The Edo capital, Benin City, has been renowned for centuries as the heart of bronze and brass craftsmanship. Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a ...
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Ancient Benin : where did the first monarchs come from? / Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Peter M. Roese

Extracted from: Asian and African studies (Bratislava) 10, 2001, pages 185-198. Argues that Udo is a more ancient settlement than Benin City, and that the first Benin Kingdom dynasty, that of Ogiso, ...
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Repositioning famous Benin art legacy

The ancient city of Benin, the Edo State capital, witnessed an artistic rebirth when some legendary and emerging Nigerian visual artists converged on the red city for a 10-day Benin Art Fair. The ...
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The ancient city walls of Great Benin : colonialism, urban heritage and cultural identity in contemporary Nigeria Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan

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