BENIN ORAL TRADITION AND THE ART
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BENIN ORAL TRADITION AND THE ART
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The most important oral
historian of Benin, Chief Jacob Egharevba, says that the Benin people are not
indigenous to their present location, that they migrated from Egypt and
settled both in the Sudan and at Ife-Ife before establishing themselves in their
present position. Egharevba claims that their first kings were known as Ogiso,
or sky kings, but that the dynasty was changed about A.D. 1170 for one
established by an Ife prince, Oranmiyan. Although Oranmiyan eventually returned
to Ife-Ife, he left a prince in Benin to succeed him.
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