I posted this yesterday and whilst I am happy that some persons adopted the flag, I was very very provoked that some of our brothers and sisters who are suffering from the psychological problems of ethnical, cultural and social identities came out openly to condemn this flag using a foreign parameter as their yardstick. They decried it as fetish,diabolical, violence-projecting and pagan. If I may ask, do they really understand the imports of the symbols and colors of the flag before jumping to conclusion. Let me help them at least;
(1) QUEEN IDIA MASK: The mask obviously is the head of the Edo warrior queen-mother Idia,the mother of Oba Esigie known as the wise King. Recall that Oba Esigie ruled over the whole of Bendel,Lagos,half Yorubalands,Onitsha and even some parts of today's north central. He was a great emperor and the first to receive a diplomatic mission from Europe and also the first black Ruler to set up an embassy in the land of the whiteman. He attained these feats with the help and encouragement of a mother who is now recorded by local and foreign history as one of the most dynamic and strongest women that ever came out of Africa. Why do you think her mask, not that of Queen Amina of Zazzau or any other historical Nigeria woman was adopted by the country in 1977 as the national symbol in that international festival of arts and culture? Even till date, the mask is still used by the country to project the viability of our culture, the virility and strength of the nigerian woman. Idia is the most popular of all the Edo powerful women on historical record and her mask dignifies the flag in the same way the head of queen Elizabeth does the currency of Britain and many of the English national monuments.
(2) THE RED COLOUR, first note that we have the colors in two separate version here. In the horizontal rectangle and in the three stars. In the rectangle, it is self explanatory. It signifies the precious blood shed by our heroes in building the great empire we are all so proud of. Surely, you wouldn't want them to be forgotten by their descendants who are today enjoying the peace they gave their lives for. Also recall that Ghana and Ethiopia have this red colour in their flag too and for the same reasons-memory of their fallen heroes. We can never forget easily the Benin massacre of 1897. A pogron that so much decimated our population that the Edo people who by the 19th century were the largest nation in West Africa rain forest is today regarded as a minority group. As for the stars, it highlights the beauty of the Edo nation.Rose the king of flowers ( ododo) is red. 3 stars signify the current people of Benin,Esan and Afemai who are direct offshoots of the great empire. We are beautiful and united family, aren't we?
(3) THE GREEN COLOUR. This simply depict our geography and vegetation. We are in a rain forest which is ever green. Mark my words, oil or no oil, Edo nation can never lack of food because God in his mercy has been partial in favoring us with much agrarian gifts and resources. Edo and Ondo contributed most in the production of the agricultural wealth that built the old western region. Cocoa,rubber and palm oil, we remain número uno.
(4) THE WHITE COLOUR:
White is for peace and we are a very peaceful people unless we are unreasonably dared. We should stop using campus cult violence to define us. Every campus is populated by people from all ethnic groups in Nigeria not only Edo people. It is wrong to attribute the cult activities in AAU and Uniben to only Edo student. How many Edo persons were involved in the most violent activities in Nigeria...Niger Delta Militancy,Maintesina uprising and Boko haram insurgency..nil
(5) THE STATELY SWORD:
Need I explain this. Edo people are the most royal of all the nations in West African sub-region nay,the whole of Africa. We have a royal institution that is as old as the British monarchy, older than the sefewa dynasty and outlived the French empire. We are a dignified race ruled by majestic and honourable kings. Oba Eweka 1 was not a tyrant like Caesar Borgia of Rome,Oba Ewuare was not a homosexual like King James of England and Oba Ozolua the conqueror was never a pervert like Napoleon of France.
(7) THE MATCHET: This has nothing to do with violence but simply depict our traditional professions. We were and still largely warriors, hunters and farmers. So the other sword or rather the matchet is a tool not an object of negative violence.
On a final note, it is an indisputable fact that rituals, violence and occultism has been practiced and executed by Christianity and Islam than any our indigenous religions. This should be another topic for another day..
Plz I want to ask one question. How on earth is it possible that a race of men came to be highly distinguished and exalted above the rest of mankind. We don't need kings in the modern society.
Bilabong: The sculpture is kinda broken on one edge. Is it that part the foreigners stole
Nothing black on the flag? Nothing to show the world u are "black" from a continent of Africa.
U are wicked too. Created a post and still occupy 1 and 2 positions.
I don't agree with you. Not only Nigeria has a two colored flag eg China. And the flag was created during the era of agriculture. Are leaders lost focus.
To begin we're not black. We're brown, ebony and diverse. We Africans have the most diverse colour shades.
The Divine Feminine and Sophia, the Spirit of Earth (Gaia) are female aspects of Divinity that are impregnable by the masculine spirit of the Sun God (Solaris) as male aspect of Divinity ruling over the Solar System.
So, it is not out of place to note that when we migrated from Mars down here, history got distorted by the Reptilians who are mostly patriarchal, and that is how religion and politics were invented with Lordship of Men to enslave women by hiding data on the Divine Feminine, and enthrone men as leaders instead of women who are actually the impregnable force of creation.
Women who know this truth do not mess around, and I am yet to see such a woman in Nigeria, when I find such a woman. I wish I will ever find such a lady to share a bottle of wine with.
Hardrive: Plz I want to ask one question. How on earth is it possible that a race of men came to be highly distinguished and exalted above the rest of mankind. We don't need kings in the modern society.
Well tell the British, the Japanese, Thais, Belgians, Dutch, Swedes, Norwegians, Saudis, Moroccans, Spaniards, Danes and others to first abolish their monarchies. Then we will discuss.
In Benin Kings were not sit at home Kings. That only came with colonialism. The deportation of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi in 1897 precisely.
I posted this yesterday and whilst I am happy that some persons adopted the flag, I was very very provoked that some of our brothers and sisters who are suffering from the psychological problems of ethnical, cultural and social identities came out openly to condemn this flag using a foreign parameter as their yardstick. They decried it as fetish,diabolical, violence-projecting and pagan. If I may ask, do they really understand the imports of the symbols and colors of the flag before jumping to conclusion. Let me help them at least;
(1) QUEEN IDIA MASK: The mask obviously is the head of the Edo warrior queen-mother Idia,the mother of Oba Esigie known as the wise King. Recall that Oba Esigie ruled over the whole of Bendel,Lagos,half Yorubalands,Onitsha and even some parts of today's north central. He was a great emperor and the first to receive a diplomatic mission from Europe and also the first black Ruler to set up an embassy in the land of the whiteman. He attained these feats with the help and encouragement of a mother who is now recorded by local and foreign history as one of the most dynamic and strongest women that ever came out of Africa. Why do you think her mask, not that of Queen Amina of Zazzau or any other historical Nigeria woman was adopted by the country in 1977 as the national symbol in that international festival of arts and culture? Even till date, the mask is still used by the country to project the viability of our culture, the virility and strength of the nigerian woman. Idia is the most popular of all the Edo powerful women on historical record and her mask dignifies the flag in the same way the head of queen Elizabeth does the currency of Britain and many of the English national monuments.
(2) THE RED COLOUR, first note that we have the colors in two separate version here. In the horizontal rectangle and in the three stars. In the rectangle, it is self explanatory. It signifies the precious blood shed by our heroes in building the great empire we are all so proud of. Surely, you wouldn't want them to be forgotten by their descendants who are today enjoying the peace they gave their lives for. Also recall that Ghana and Ethiopia have this red colour in their flag too and for the same reasons-memory of their fallen heroes. We can never forget easily the Benin massacre of 1897. A pogron that so much decimated our population that the Edo people who by the 19th century were the largest nation in West Africa rain forest is today regarded as a minority group. As for the stars, it highlights the beauty of the Edo nation.Rose the king of flowers ( ododo) is red. 3 stars signify the current people of Benin,Esan and Afemai who are direct offshoots of the great empire. We are beautiful and united family, aren't we?
(3) THE GREEN COLOUR. This simply depict our geography and vegetation. We are in a rain forest which is ever green. Mark my words, oil or no oil, Edo nation can never lack of food because God in his mercy has been partial in favoring us with much agrarian gifts and resources. Edo and Ondo contributed most in the production of the agricultural wealth that built the old western region. Cocoa,rubber and palm oil, we remain número uno.
(4) THE WHITE COLOUR:
White is for peace and we are a very peaceful people unless we are unreasonably dared. We should stop using campus cult violence to define us. Every campus is populated by people from all ethnic groups in Nigeria not only Edo people. It is wrong to attribute the cult activities in AAU and Uniben to only Edo student. How many Edo persons were involved in the most violent activities in Nigeria...Niger Delta Militancy,Maintesina uprising and Boko haram insurgency..nil
(5) THE STATELY SWORD:
Need I explain this. Edo people are the most royal of all the nations in West African sub-region nay,the whole of Africa. We have a royal institution that is as old as the British monarchy, older than the sefewa dynasty and outlived the French empire. We are a dignified race ruled by majestic and honourable kings. Oba Eweka 1 was not a tyrant like Caesar Borgia of Rome,Oba Ewuare was not a homosexual like King James of England and Oba Ozolua the conqueror was never a pervert like Napoleon of France.
(7) THE MATCHET: This has nothing to do with violence but simply depict our traditional professions. We were and still largely warriors, hunters and farmers. So the other sword or rather the matchet is a tool not an object of negative violence.
On a final note, it is an indisputable fact that rituals, violence and occultism has been practiced and executed by Christianity and Islam than any our indigenous religions. This should be another topic for another day..
Thanks for this nice post.
I want to write something on my blog about stolen artefacts, and I need get one important piece of information. I want to get some data by the Oba's representative that he talked about in the below TV show, when a white man returned a stolen artefact stolen by his grandfather in 1897 in Benin.
Do you have access to the Edo monarchy and can you help me get some information?
A depiction of an execution on an all red colored flag is the most psychopathic idea of a flag a nation can think of. I however agree with you that Nigeria's flag is utterly boring and totally devoid of creative ideas. It looks like a flag dat was hurriedly put together few hours before the independence day parade.
Stranac: so you want us to copy other people flags and use it to plan our own??No sir..
[b]Benin kingdom is a tribe and can also be a nation,[/b]we show what we do,not lying about peace when there are no peace
A quick note here. Benin is not a tribe. It is more of a culture. The sub-tribes make up the Benin people. A remnant of a previously very diverse Kingdom/Empire. Reason is within the current core Benin areas, there are still indigenous, Yoruboid people (Usen, Utese, Iguogho, Egbeta), Izon (Gelegele) & Igboid (Igbanke) people.
The monarch sits at the top of that cultural heritage with Benin language as the central language. Benin is just called a tribe for simplicity sake. But the imperial history still reflected in the culture is much more complex.
The red flag is the ancient Benin Empire flag. It was a warrior empire and no empire grows through peace only. All occurred through war. The Sokoto Caliphate began with Uthman Dan Fodio just like Boko Haram began. If Boko Haram insurgence began just 130 years, they might be ruling all of Northern Nigeria by now.
The beheading flag was the usual war flag/banner. You can criticise as you want. Warriors 500 years were not sisis like all the effeminate men we have today.
oluwaahmed: A depiction of an execution on an all red colored flag is the most psychopathic idea of a flag a nation can think of. I however agree with you that Nigeria's flag is utterly boring and totally devoid of creative ideas. It looks like a flag dat was hurriedly put together few hours before the independence day parade.
The red flag is the ancient Benin Empire flag. It was a warrior empire and no empire grows through peace only. All occurred through war. The Sokoto Caliphate began with Uthman Dan Fodio just like Boko Haram began. If Boko Haram insurgence began just 130 years, they might be ruling all of Northern Nigeria by now.
The beheading flag was the usual war flag/banner. You can criticise as you want. Warriors 500 years were not sisis like all the effeminate men we have today.
five5star: you need to upgrade ya way of reasoning..... It delusional
Delusion is a word that someone of your mental acumen should never write. Argumentum ad hominen has always been the weakness of the celebrally ill-lettered.
Education on certain subject matters outside your level of understanding requires your sublime humility, but I understand that your celebral capacity as a non-player character within the matrix deprives you of a inert capacity to understand the mechanics of life.
I posted this yesterday and whilst I am happy that some persons adopted the flag, I was very very provoked that some of our brothers and sisters who are suffering from the psychological problems of ethnical, cultural and social identities came out openly to condemn this flag using a foreign parameter as their yardstick. They decried it as fetish,diabolical, violence-projecting and pagan. If I may ask, do they really understand the imports of the symbols and colors of the flag before jumping to conclusion. Let me help them at least;
(1) QUEEN IDIA MASK: The mask obviously is the head of the Edo warrior queen-mother Idia,the mother of Oba Esigie known as the wise King. Recall that Oba Esigie ruled over the whole of Bendel,Lagos,half Yorubalands,Onitsha and even some parts of today's north central. He was a great emperor and the first to receive a diplomatic mission from Europe and also the first black Ruler to set up an embassy in the land of the whiteman. He attained these feats with the help and encouragement of a mother who is now recorded by local and foreign history as one of the most dynamic and strongest women that ever came out of Africa. Why do you think her mask, not that of Queen Amina of Zazzau or any other historical Nigeria woman was adopted by the country in 1977 as the national symbol in that international festival of arts and culture? Even till date, the mask is still used by the country to project the viability of our culture, the virility and strength of the nigerian woman. Idia is the most popular of all the Edo powerful women on historical record and her mask dignifies the flag in the same way the head of queen Elizabeth does the currency of Britain and many of the English national monuments.
(2) THE RED COLOUR, first note that we have the colors in two separate version here. In the horizontal rectangle and in the three stars. In the rectangle, it is self explanatory. It signifies the precious blood shed by our heroes in building the great empire we are all so proud of. Surely, you wouldn't want them to be forgotten by their descendants who are today enjoying the peace they gave their lives for. Also recall that Ghana and Ethiopia have this red colour in their flag too and for the same reasons-memory of their fallen heroes. We can never forget easily the Benin massacre of 1897. A pogron that so much decimated our population that the Edo people who by the 19th century were the largest nation in West Africa rain forest is today regarded as a minority group. As for the stars, it highlights the beauty of the Edo nation.Rose the king of flowers ( ododo) is red. 3 stars signify the current people of Benin,Esan and Afemai who are direct offshoots of the great empire. We are beautiful and united family, aren't we?
(3) THE GREEN COLOUR. This simply depict our geography and vegetation. We are in a rain forest which is ever green. Mark my words, oil or no oil, Edo nation can never lack of food because God in his mercy has been partial in favoring us with much agrarian gifts and resources. Edo and Ondo contributed most in the production of the agricultural wealth that built the old western region. Cocoa,rubber and palm oil, we remain número uno.
(4) THE WHITE COLOUR:
White is for peace and we are a very peaceful people unless we are unreasonably dared. We should stop using campus cult violence to define us. Every campus is populated by people from all ethnic groups in Nigeria not only Edo people. It is wrong to attribute the cult activities in AAU and Uniben to only Edo student. How many Edo persons were involved in the most violent activities in Nigeria...Niger Delta Militancy,Maintesina uprising and Boko haram insurgency..nil
(5) THE STATELY SWORD:
Need I explain this. Edo people are the most royal of all the nations in West African sub-region nay,the whole of Africa. We have a royal institution that is as old as the British monarchy, older than the sefewa dynasty and outlived the French empire. We are a dignified race ruled by majestic and honourable kings. Oba Eweka 1 was not a tyrant like Caesar Borgia of Rome,Oba Ewuare was not a homosexual like King James of England and Oba Ozolua the conqueror was never a pervert like Napoleon of France.
(7) THE MATCHET: This has nothing to do with violence but simply depict our traditional professions. We were and still largely warriors, hunters and farmers. So the other sword or rather the matchet is a tool not an object of negative violence.
On a final note, it is an indisputable fact that rituals, violence and occultism has been practiced and executed by Christianity and Islam than any our indigenous religions. This should be another topic for another day..
Nice one.
I love the coat of arm.
Elephant...Eni ne'gia gbe Leopard...Ekpen ne'de Eagle...? Ada Eben
Oba Gha Tor'okpere!!! Ma gha tor, ma ghi vbe kpe!!!
The Divine Feminine and Sophia, the Spirit of Earth (Gaia) are female aspects of Divinity that are impregnable by the masculine spirit of the Sun God (Solaris) as male aspect of Divinity ruling over the Solar System.
So, it is not out of place to note that when we migrated from Mars down here, history got distorted by the Reptilians who are mostly patriarchal, and that is how religion and politics were invented with Lordship of Men to enslave women by hiding data on the Divine Feminine, and enthrone men as leaders instead of women who are actually the impregnable force of creation.
Women who know this truth do not mess around, and I am yet to see such a woman in Nigeria, when I find such a woman. I wish I will ever find such a lady to share a bottle of wine with.
You've tried, you've said so mush. You need a glass of water?
Kyllahmc: Benin failed Africa... All the ancient African civilizations that failed to develop alongside ancient European civilizations failed us woofully!
(2) THE RED COLOUR, first note that we have the colors in two separate version here. In the horizontal rectangle and in the three stars. In the rectangle, it is self explanatory. It signifies the precious blood shed by our heroes in building the great empire we are all so proud of. Surely, you wouldn't want them to be forgotten by their descendants who are today enjoying the peace they gave their lives for. Also recall that Ghana and Ethiopia have this red colour in their flag too and for the same reasons-memory of their fallen heroes. We can never forget easily the Benin massacre of 1897. A pogron that so much decimated our population that the Edo people who by the 19th century were the largest nation in West Africa rain forest is today regarded as a minority group. As for the stars, it highlights the beauty of the Edo nation.Rose the king of flowers ( ododo) is red. 3 stars signify the current people of Benin,Esan and Afemai who are direct offshoots of the great empire. We are beautiful and united aren't we ?
Esan, Af(p)emai and Benin are the three stars of Edo state NOT the three stars of Benin; they are not offshoot of Benin. You guys are united
prolog2: Asaba is part of Delta state which was part of Bendel which was part of Benin Kingdom. The Obi of Onitcha himself aknowledges his Edo roots and the Edo origin of his crown. Nowadays, there are too many folks like you who just believe they can make up their history and write off what they don't like.
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Show us where Obi of Onitsha acknowledged any Edo roots
prolog2: Asaba is part of Delta state which was part of Bendel which was part of Benin Kingdom. The Obi of Onitcha himself aknowledges his Edo roots and the Edo origin of his crown. Nowadays, there are too many folks like you who just believe they can make up their history and write off what they don't like.
At no time did Obi of Onicha ever claimed Bini origin...Delusion every where
Folashade2016: No wonder in Benin all you see is landlady. Women rocks benin city. Not tryna be a feminist but we've got benin city grounded. past present and future history will always favor us in Benin city.
actually benin empire deserve an accolade.
yoruba people just use size and numbers take claim glory.
benin kingdom use to rule the entire south and west in d days of british colony
Stranac: so you want us to copy other people flags and use it to plan our own??No sir..
Benin kingdom is a tribe and can also be a nation,we show what we do,not lying about peace when there are no peace
In my opinion I think the stars should have been black or any other color, purple is a Royal color and would have made a lot sense. You know we Bini's are ROYALTY.
nicely done