Benin city was the most developed African city for centuries,Benin had reached its peak before the coming of the whiteman.

There was no society,kingdom or state greater than Benin for centuries not the least the societies of the majority tribes in Nigeria. They've got nothing on BENIN.

Infact the whiteman facilitated it's decline.

Today Benin city is reduced to ruins and nothingness.

A ruined city filled with drugs and crime.

It's inhabitants are no more the hard workers and developers their ancestors were.

They have thrown away their garb of greatness for Nigeria.

All they have left is a symbol of the past- the Oba.

Isn't it time for Benin to rise again.

Delulu Africans with their village "Empire" hallucinations

Not only Greatest African empire but the greatest in the universe and multiverse. There is none like the mighty Benin empire in the whole of the multiverse of the multiverse !

Idiots!!!

Goodlyhrt:
Delulu Africans with their village "Empire" hallucinations

Empire is empire,if you like mock it or not,it will never change the facts and truth

Goodlyhrt:
Not only Greatest African empire but the greatest in the universe and multiverse. There is none like the mighty Benin empire in the whole of the multiverse of the multiverse !

Idiots!!!

Benin city not empire was the greatest African state in all of known history

Ok..

babasolution:
Benin city was the most developed African city for centuries,Benin had reached its peak before the coming of the whiteman.

There was no society,kingdom or state greater than Benin for centuries not the least the societies of the majority tribes in Nigeria. They've got nothing on BENIN.

Infact the whiteman facilitated it's decline.

Today Benin city is reduced to ruins and nothingness.

A ruined city filled with drugs and crime.

It's inhabitants are no more the hard workers and developers their ancestors were.

They have thrown away their garb of greatness for Nigeria.

All they have left is a symbol of the past- the Oba.

Isn't it time for Benin to rise again.

Benin needs to rescue its women and girls from Economic Vultures who use them

For the Oldest profession in the world first

It is not an insult but some very vicious cult gangs have been wrecking serious Moral Decay

and damage on Benin by exploiting its vulnerable women

Benin has not done enough to protect and Educate or rehabilitate its Women

Nigeria has problems but Benins own is on a different planet , the Gangs controlling

Women trafficking are very dangerous and are even working with European Mafias

Benin needs to take them to the Cleaners

babasolution:


Benin city not empire was the greatest African state in all of known history

If I were to engage you a little bit more now you will go on about how slave trade, British denied you from achieving whatever fathom greatness you had in the past.

Bro forget all these village and beer parlor gist for the outdated ogies and focus on AI. AI is the future and major contribution on its development by any African will duly give us a bragging among our peers.

Goodlyhrt:
If I were to engage you a little bit more now you will go on about how slave trade, British denied you from achieving whatever fathom greatness you had in the past.

Bro forget all these village and beer parlor gist for the outdated ogies and focus on AI. AI is the future and major contribution on its development by any African will duly give us a bragging among our peers.

I'm talking about city development not technology

babasolution:
Benin city was the most developed African city for centuries,Benin had reached its peak before the coming of the whiteman.

There was no society,kingdom or state greater than Benin for centuries not the least the societies of the majority tribes in Nigeria. They've got nothing on BENIN.

Infact the whiteman facilitated it's decline.

Today Benin city is reduced to ruins and nothingness.

A ruined city filled with drugs and crime.

It's inhabitants are no more the hard workers and developers their ancestors were.

They have thrown away their garb of greatness for Nigeria.

All they have left is a symbol of the past- the Oba.

Isn't it time for Benin to rise again.

Can you show us the ruins of the greatest African city?

So many are mad. Bini not Benin

Kingdom not empire

Your bini influence no pass 3 local government.

Tired of all these stu.pid people

Ojiofor:


Can you show us the ruins of the greatest African city?

Go to Benin,they will show you

aljharem:
So many are mad. Bini not Benin

Kingdom not empire

Your bini influence no pass 3 local government.

Tired of all these stu.pid people

All I mentioned was Benin city,I never mentioned empire anywere

One day, this statement will soon be attributed to Lagos...

babasolution:


Empire is empire,if you like mock it or not,it will never change the facts and truth

Benin was a kingdom, not an empire.

Oyo was an empire though. Same as Kanem Bornu Empire.

babasolution:


Go to Benin,they will show you

It should be online or no evidence of what you claim?
There are picture evidence of ruins of great cities around the world.

Slytiger:

Benin was a kingdom, not an empire.

Oyo was an empire though.

Benin was the greatest African state/ city to exist in the medieval age,bar non.

Oyo was an empire on paper

Ojiofor:


It should be online or no evidence of what you claim?
There are picture evidence of ruins of great cities around the world.

Go and search for them online

babasolution:

Benin was the greatest African state/ city to exist in the medieval age,bar non.

Oyo was an empire on paper

According to British Britannica. Oyo was an empire while Bini was a kingdom.

Slytiger:

According to British Brittanica.

Fact is fact,truth is truth

babasolution:


Fact is fact,truth is truth

100%.

Evidences of Benin splendour through its art abounds immensely worldwide

babasolution:


Go and search for them online

Bini city have nothing left of their mud thatch houses they called great city.
You do not expect mud thatch houses to survive in a rain forest region like Bini and mud houses can't make a city great.

Ok..

Goodlyhrt:
Delulu Africans with their village "Empire" hallucinations

Ojiofor:


Bini city have nothing left of their mud thatch houses they called great city.
You do not expect mud thatch houses to survive in a rain forest region like Bini and mud houses can't make a city great.

SHUT UP, YOU MENTALLY COLONISED, IGNORANT BUFFOONS.

This is why you all feel so inferior to other races, because you are so TRAGICALLY IGNORANT of your glorious African history.

Benin City was described as one of the world's most beautiful cities by European visitors from the 1500s through to the late 1600s.

It had street lights powered by palm oil, underground drainage, and large multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments. A city described as being so crime-free that the people did not bother to build FRONT DOORS to their houses, because theft was ''UNKNOWN''.

The emperors of Benin built a massive wall surrounding the entire kingdom, and even walls separating cities and villages, as a form of military defence against invaders, and the wall was recorded in the 1974 and 1982 Guinness Book of Records, and being the largest man-made structure ON EARTH.

1834 drawing of Benin City by English visitor, Mary Evans, showing a vibrant city with large monuments and public buildings. This was 63 years before the British invasion of Nigeria, and destruction, bombardment of Benin City, whose inhabitants fought gallantly and desperately to defend their city from the invading British vandals.



So this whole idea that Nigerians needed ''white people'' to become ''civilised'' is a BIG FAT LIE.

If anything, contact with them stunted our development.

Here. See. The whites know your history better than you:

UK Guardian report on Ancient Benin City

''Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace''
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

UK Guardian Report



With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?


Mawuna Koutonin

This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”....

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.

“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”


World famous Benin Bronzes




What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns. At the beginning of the 16th century, word quickly spread around Europe about the beautiful African city, and new visitors flocked in from all parts of Europe, with ever glowing testimonies, recorded in numerous voyage notes and illustrations.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

Rossikk:




SHUT UP, YOU MENTALLY COLONISED, IGNORANT BUFFOONS.

Benin City was described as one of the world's most beautiful cities by European visitors from the 1500s through to the late 1600s.

It had street lights powered by palm oil, underground drainage, and large multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments. A city described as being so crime-free that the people did not bother to build FRONT DOORS to their houses, because theft was ''UNKNOWN''.

The emperors of Benin built a massive wall surrounding the entire kingdom, and even walls separating cities and villages, as a form of military defence against invaders, and the wall was recorded in the 1974 and 1982 Guinness Book of Records, and being the largest man-made structure ON EARTH.

1834 drawing of Benin City by English visitor, Mary Evans, showing a vibrant city with large monuments and public buildings. This was 63 years before the British invasion of Nigeria, and destruction, bombardment of Benin City, whose inhabitants fought gallantly and desperately to defend their city from the invading British vandals.



So this whole idea that Nigerians needed ''white people'' to become ''civilised'' is a BIG FAT LIE.

If anything, contact with them stunted our development.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

See this one.. So you still relied on the colonizers record to validate your claim? So in your greatness none of your literature survived to point to as reference to your claim bah?

Common getat from my mention you.. living in the past.

You should probably pack you things and go back to those primitive time so that you can really enjoy the 'greatness' you so cherish.

Rossikk:




SHUT UP, YOU MENTALLY COLONISED, IGNORANT BUFFOONS.

Benin City was described as one of the world's most beautiful cities by European visitors from the 1500s through to the late 1600s.

It had street lights powered by palm oil, underground drainage, and large multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments. A city described as being so crime-free that the people did not bother to build FRONT DOORS to their houses, because theft was ''UNKNOWN''.

The emperors of Benin built a massive wall surrounding the entire kingdom, and even walls separating cities and villages, as a form of military defence against invaders, and the wall was recorded in the 1974 and 1982 Guinness Book of Records, and being the largest man-made structure ON EARTH.

1834 drawing of Benin City by English visitor, Mary Evans, showing a vibrant city with large monuments and public buildings. This was 63 years before the British invasion of Nigeria, and destruction, bombardment of Benin City, whose inhabitants fought gallantly and desperately to defend their city from the invading British vandals.



So this whole idea that Nigerians needed ''white people'' to become ''civilised'' is a BIG FAT LIE.

If anything, contact with them stunted our development.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

To prove me right that nothing is left of your village mud house empire you came up with a sketch drawing which is nothing but imagination of the artist.Show us the ruins of your great village empire or get the fück outta my mention.

Excuse which Benin are you talking about.

Goodlyhrt:
See this one.. So you still relied on the colonizers record to validate your claim? So in your greatness none of your literature survived to point to as reference to your claim bah?

Common getat from my mention you.. living in the past.

You should probably pack you things and go back to those primitive time so that you can really enjoy the 'greatness' you so cherish.

Stupid brainless dunce, brainwashed to self hate.

Are you even aware that the British bombarded and burnt down the entire city of Benin and surrounding communities after looting the palace and public buildings of everything therein, in 1897?

Did they not seize power and rule for nearly a century afterwards?

What ''records'' should have been kept in the smouldering ash of burnt down cities and fleeing survivors, you brainless imbe.cil.e?

Whoever cursed you to hate your own self to this extent, must be truly satanic.

babasolution:
Benin city was the most developed African city for centuries,Benin had reached its peak before the coming of the whiteman.

There was no society,kingdom or state greater than Benin for centuries not the least the societies of the majority tribes in Nigeria. They've got nothing on BENIN.

Infact the whiteman facilitated it's decline.

Today Benin city is reduced to ruins and nothingness.

A ruined city filled with drugs and crime.

It's inhabitants are no more the hard workers and developers their ancestors were.

They have thrown away their garb of greatness for Nigeria.

All they have left is a symbol of the past- the Oba.

Isn't it time for Benin to rise again.

True. Benin was the first city to have lamps on its streets. Nigeria will be Great Again.