How to impress your courtiers: a lesson from the Kingdom of Benin 

Give Nigerians their treasures back. TY for the video.

This is fascinating. All these plaques should be together in one place - Nigeria! So that they could be reconstituted into a museum. This is such an informative short video. Thanks for making it.

We are the Children of Great Benin Empire. We are the Owner of the Red Soil. We are the Children of the Cradle of Black Civilization Oba of Benin Kingdom is Our Father and God's Representative to Mankind on Earth to Us all. We are the Children of UMOGUN Oza. We are the Real Children Of Ogiso. Ogidigan is Our Father and the Link between the Benins and Ancestors of Our Land. Everything You see in Benin Kingdom was either won by Love or By Blood but never MONEY, because anything that can be bought has no real values. The Ekpen No'Owa. The OGidigan. The Uku Akpolokpolo. The UMOGUN Oza The Head and Leader of all Edo Race which is, His Royal Majesty, Omo N'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin is priceless to Us. We will and shall continue to Love Our Dear and Respect Oba. Oba of Benin is the Eminiminimini hope they know the meaning of that word, the UMOGUN is a living deity, Oba gha tókpére...isèèè

We are Binis Oba ghatokpere Iseee......🙏

I am proud of my heritage as an EDO man from the great Benin kingdom. When I transit, I want to reincarnate as an Edo person. Oba ghato kpere Ise.

These plaques are pages of the history books, if you will, of the Benin empire. Very similar to way the ancient Egyptians use to write their history. We hsve not even begun to appreciate the value of these plaques. These plaques are better in their natural environment: Nigeria where they can be appriciated not only as beautiful master pieces but also for their historical and anthropological value.

BEAUTIFUL FIRST PEOPLE!

Beautiful, beautiful!

CAPACITY Unlike Benin City Capacity is not the name of a city But is what you need to build a city Capacitate yourself with the necessary capacity And you can build your desired city Even in the face of adversity I salute the ancients of the ancient city Whose capacity built Benin City Benin City, the land of my ancestry Benin City, the land of my nativity Benin City, home sweet home to me Cradle of ancient civilization, Benin City Where the Oba is king truly I recall in their first visits to Benin City The white parties did marvel at the city Because in building Benin City Its ancients exhibited capacity I don't crave for a city I only crave for capacity If I have capacity I can build a city Even in the face of adversity ▪Oba gha tókpére.....isèèè

People get uplifted by their past that's why the hegemony has been at the forefront to distort and hide the Truth but the only good thing is that the real Truth has started being manifest in the Hearts

Beni's need all artifacts back to Benin City Nigeria, thank u 🙏

And also smoked mud fish is one of the preferred food of the Orisas, is used in our rituals even today and is delicious.!

I watched this at the best time ever, 5.00AM and I believe my Ancestors lead me to it, I was not really listening to the explanations, because those Artifacts are gods on their own, they talk to me directly.... POWERFUL OBA GHA TÖ KPÉ REÉ 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

The saddest part about the Kingdom of Benin is that they refused to engage in the selling of slaves. Yet centuries later many of the citizens of Benin were hauled off to the Americas as slaves.

Thank you for the video and explanations. I never knew the Benin bronze were so many and this detailed. I have only heard about them. Thanks for the video, this was how our ancestors documented our history.

Imagine what they would be doing today if they had not been illuminated! Their work was improving? Black people are always having to start over.

Nice to have them the world over. Great proofs of African ancient technological advancement

best channel on youtube. keep it up.

I am very proud, Edo/ Bini & also of my heritage, reflecting to when Divine Lord God appears twice & started with the kingdom( ie long, long before the few races with dark evils spirits chased out from sodiom & gomorrah.

Great lecture!!

Thanks for posting this.

Awesome. They said Africans weren’t capable of such art but we sure proved them wrong.

Nommo is the mame for the mudfish from Sirius!

History lesson

The next major slice of my DNA pie is from Begin and Togo, so I'm immediately intrigued again. I'm also on the market for ways to impress adorkable curly-haired art nerds with infectious smiles, so even more intrigued by the title. 😌 I'm reminded of relief sculptures from the ancient playlist, so it's nice to see this again. Doing the hand-torso movement was a bit of fun - definitely not natural. I'm reminded of my free-weight workouts and holding my arms in a similar fashion to work muscles. Maybe the artist had that in mind too - a power move. I've actually seen a restaurant in Key West where money is wrapped all over the walls. I forget the story, but it wasn't the prettiest place, lol. All told, I don't think I'll be investing in any mudfish, but I can appreciate the splendor suggested by this piece in its time.

I wish I could have seen this in it's Original color! Why put oil over it

They met them shine and made them brown by oiling them . Do they do that to artifacts from other places ?

The coral did not walk from Olokun, the Edo/ Binis were hard working people that strongly believed Divine Lord God, they were farmers, traders& also engaged in doing positive things that yield money. The empire very rich and one the then Obas who was a Priest before he became Oba cultivated the Coral beads from Olokun( middle) the sea, not just coral beads but also white pearls.

Return all these items to the People of benin It belongs to them if you all want a museum well you travel to their country and visit that museum but that belongs to them the bloodline is not dead. We are numerous return that to Africa

They stole these bronzes when they burned Benin empire to the ground. They ruin everything. The British museum should be renamed the "The African museum Far Away From Home."

Stolen artifacts that should be returned

🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇧🇯🇧🇯🇧🇯👏🏾👏🏾My Primary Ancestry, with a few other West African Countries. I am IMMENSELY HAPPY that I hv found this information as it it DEEP, especially when they separate parent 1 and parent 2‼️It adds up to some stories I was told growing up. I am contemplating how I will return to Nigeria and Benin ASAP‼️We hv information that one of our Ancestors is from The Ebo Tribe, at least that is what the paper said. My daughters father amazingly has the same Ancestry, I hv found so many people that share my DNA, even 1 of my best friends turned out to be a distant cousin, and one of my professional acquaintance, we were close in that capacity, turned out as a distant cousin as well. OK, I will stop😂😂😂😂But I AM GRATEFUL