They were immediately recognised as supreme documents of a culture that had left no written record, and they embody the history of an African kingdom ... outside the city of Ife, he was so ...

Oba Esigie Created an empire and won land from the Kingdom of Ife. Oba Orhogbua During his reign, the empire reached its largest size. Benin City is at least four miles wide. The city has wide ...

Meanwhile, in the south, notable kingdoms included the Yoruba empires of Ife and Oyo, the Benin Kingdom, the Ibibio-Efik Kingdom, and the Ijaw city-states of Nembe, Bonny, and Okrika. These ...