Select Internet Sources
Massive amounts of information about Benin
are available on the Internet. This series of links is limited in
number. Those searching for further information should be aware that general
searches for Benin
will result not only in information about Nigeria's Benin
Kingdom, but about the West African nation the Republic
of Benin, a quite-different entity. If the source is written in French or mentions Dahomey
or the Fon, it is likely referring to the country that named itself after
the kingdom, so exercise caution in researching. The links below all refer
to the kingdom or related material.
Ẹdo
news, culture and history
http://nigerianobservernews.
com/
Benin City
and Ẹdo State’s online newspaper
http://www.edotv.net/
Online Ẹdo television
http://www.edostate.gov.ng/
Ẹdo
State
official website
http://www.edo-nation.net/toc.
htm
This rich Ẹdo-created site includes articles and features on diverse
topics—historical, cultural, political, and religious. A must-see.
http://www.
binicommunityberlin.org/index. html
Useful site that includes many analyses, links to Nigerian newspapers, and
covers all the peoples of the former Bendel
State. A must-see.
http://www.edofolks.com/
A strong advocate of Ẹdo language. Links to its different facets are
at the top of the page.
http://www.greatbenin.org/
igodo.html
Benin City’s Institute for Benin Studies
http://www.raceandhistory.com/
historicalviews/edoofbenin.htm
An overview of the Ẹdo
http://www.
binicommunityberlin.org/index. html
Ẹdo community in Berlin. Under “Publications,” an interesting article about the Ẹdo
language.
http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.
uk/africanlegacy/benin_Iya_ earthworks.htm
Archaeologist Dr. Philip Darling’s site, discussing the Benin/Ishan iya,
or earthworks system of encircling towns.
http://www.cgore.dircon.co.uk/
a1a.htm
An extensive Benin
bibliography here.
http://www.obadan.com/
Obadan town within the Benin
kingdom
http://wysinger.homestead.com/
beninwarriors.html
A look at the Benin
Kingdom’s military in past centuries
http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/
dokserv?idn=964084686&dok_var= d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=
964084686.pdf
A complete thesis on Benin’s military of the past
http://books.google.com/books?
id=9kcCZIdxXpsC&printsec= frontcover&dq=ling+roth&lr=&
ei=DTIUScbsN4qEywTK2M2tAg
Sections of H. Ling Roth’s Great
Benin [1903] viewable online through Google Books
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Ẹdo
art, past and present
http://www.khm.at/system2E.
html?/staticE/page3586.html
Website of the largest, most
complete Benin exhibition ever held
http://www.artsmia.org/world-
myths/viewallart/tusk_ background.html
Analysis of a tusk at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
http://www.lagosian.com/blog_
detail.php?blog_id=39
Remembering artist Ben Osawe
http://www.absolutearts.com/
artsnews/2006/11/02/34216.html
London-based conceptual artist Leo
Asemota
http://www.eotla.com/
Leo Asemota’s official website;
be sure to click links
http://www.iduborartsgallery.
net/aboutus.htm
Idubor Arts Gallery in Benin City
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/benin.
html
Benin art at the Pitt-Rivers Museum
http://www.dia.org/
collections/aonwc/africanart/ beninkings.html
Benin art at the Detroit Institute
of Arts
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
view_lesson_plan.asp?id=412
Benin art lesson plan
http://books.google.com/books?
hl=en&id=lk49AAAAMAAJ&dq= benin+art&printsec=frontcover&
source=web&ots=cc_YnD-bI4&sig= o4cyLiYFec6sdc0IG-aWtVakEI4&
sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9& ct=result#PPP1,M1
Google books has all of Read &
Dalton’s Antique Works of Art from Benin [1900]—the early
catalogue of the (then much smaller) British Museum catalogue online here
http://www.thenationonlineng.
com/dynamicpage.asp?id=67740
The first multi-storied building in
Benin City
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Benin
in the colonial period
http://www.sacred-texts.com/
afr/mind/index.htm
A colonialist’s book—R.E. Dennett’s At the Back of the Black
Man’s Mind [1906]—reprinted in its entirety. While full of
many misinterpretations and dated ideas, it includes nuggets of useful
information on Benin and on the Kongo people as well.
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Benin’s neighbors
http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ hd/beni_1/hd_beni_1.htm
An examination of Benin
art in relationship to that of its Ijebu and Owo Yoruba neighbors
http://www.itsekiri.org/files/
home/home.php
Itsekiri site. Includes music!
http://www.asaba.com/
A strong association from a Western
Igbo town. Includes video.
http://www.asabausa.com/pages.
php?D=13
Western Igbo town association
http://www.anioma.org/
General association for the Western
Igbo
http://www.ijebuassociation.
org/
The Ijebu Yoruba
http://www.waado.org/
A very full Urhobo site; explore
its internal links.
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Repatriation
http://www.modernghana.com/
news/164955/1/once-in-the- british-museum-always-in-the- british-m.mgl
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/187229/1/pageNum1/ dissatisfaction-with-lack-of-
progress-in-restituti.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/187196/1/pageNum1/will- britain-join-other-nations-in-
returning-stole.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/186630/1/pageNum1/shall- we-learn-from-zahi-hawass-on-
how-to-recover-.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/184756/1/pageNum1/ten- essential-points-on-the-
continued-detention-of.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/185990/1/pageNum1/more- demands-for-the-restitution-
of-stolenlooted-b.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/182279/1/pageNum1/ berlin-plea-for-the-return-of-
nigerias-cultural-ob.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/178452/1/pageNum1/ safeguarding-nigerias- cultural-treasures.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/175488/1/pageNum1/news- from-nigeria-on-the-recovery-
of-the-stolen-be.html
http://www.modernghana.com/
newsp/160914/1/pageNum1/ nefertiti-idia-and-other-
african-icons-in-european.html
Numerous articulate and well-argued
articles regarding repatriation from Ghanaian scholar Dr. Kwame Opoku. For
additional examples, as well as forthcoming ones that may post-date this
website, be sure to check “View all articles by author” on the sidebar.
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American
Links
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
extra/teachers/lessonplans/ art/bearden_10-23.html
Curriculum exercise on Romare Bearden
http://africobra.com/
Official website of the Africobra
movement
http://cnylink.com/cnynews/
view_news.php?news_id= tV1201191767t4798bb578f293
An Africobra exhibition that
featured James Phillips
https://coral.uchicago.edu:
8443/display/chicago68/ AfriCobra
Brief look at Africobra, including
James Phillips
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