Benin 1897: A Brief History Part 1 

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This has to be one of the best beautiful animation of the benin city, Well done.

This is amazing. This is the type of content that I aspire to do some day as well.

Thank you so much for making this, I see is few creators make content on the Benin kingdom, as a Nigerian this breaks my heart. But this is probably the best produced and most easy to understand video, not just about the Benin kingdom, but African history I’ve yet to see.

As someone from Benin. I like this

Benin kingdom is a blessing to Nigeria 🇳🇬

incredible

I love the animation and storytelling flow 🙏🏽☀️

I'm a benin I'm a member of the Ero family

This is beautifully animated! Have you ever thought of doing a collab with Jabari on the From Nothing?

This is incredible

Thank u for this❤❤❤

Thank you my brother it is a painful experience in the history of Benin kingdom our independence kingdom was been destroy with the Portuguese the embarrassed as been working together before the evil British force invaded the kingdom today Benin has been Join together with criminal organization element of corrupt establishment politicians in power of so call one Nigeria with lslamic military criminal may God almighty containue to bless Edo people all over the world amen

You just got one additional subscriber, thanks for the brief history.

didnt benin have some wild stuff found in the center of the city.

Lovely great Benin Kingdom historic city

They also sold and traded slaves for guns and rum forgot that part

I can’t watch part 2 plz help 😢

Nice! I'll roll with ya!

Can we get all this in pdf format too ?

Bénin warrior wore armors

The people in the Benin area during the 1800s exported much more than palm oil. They raided their neighbours for slaves to sell to Europeans for guns, so that they could raid for even more slaves. The whole economy in what became Benin depended almost exclusively on constant slave raiding. The situation got so bad even the British - notorious slave traders themselves had to blockade the coast of Benin to stop slaves from being forcibly sent to nations like Brazil and Cuba. Even further, no mention at all was made of the 'Annual Customs'. This was a ritual ceremony in which up to 4000 people were murdered, often by beheading in one day. Benin, formerly Dahomey was a nation of murderous psychopaths who did great harm to Africa and black people in general.

@haat praat. He’s correct in that the Benin kingdom fully participated in capturing and selling slaves to European traders ever since 1485. They also practiced human sacrifices and cannibalism. The British very much wanted to put an end to the barbaric practices as well as develop good trading relationships with the Oba, but instead he sought brides, extortion and restricted trade. When a peaceful mission was sent to address these issues they were massacred by the Benin this resulted in a punitive force being sent to exact revenge on the Oba and the destruction of his despotic and cruel reign. To offset the cost of the expedition they looted the Oba’s wealth.

It wasn't only palm oil and ivory that the Europeans came to buy, you conveniently left out that they also came to buy slaves. The long and short of this video is that the British took away benin's independence, just like benin took away the independence of some of its neighbours and required them to pay tributes or risk a punitive war