Journal articles: 'Benin – History'

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Ekeh, Peter P. "Contesting the History of Benin Kingdom." Research in African Literatures 31, no. 3 (September 2000): 147–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2000.31.3.147.

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Ekeh, Peter Palmer. "Contesting the History of Benin Kingdom." Research in African Literatures 31, no. 3 (2000): 147–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2000.0081.

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Eisenhofer, Stefan. "The Origins of the Benin Kingship in the Works of Jacob Egharevba." History in Africa 22 (January 1995): 141–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171912.

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The kingdom of Benin has the reputation of being one of the most important examples for a king-oriented state-formation in sub-Saharian Africa. In the past few decades much research has appeared on the early history of this kingdom, the origin of its kingship, and the time of the early Ogiso kings, who are considered by many historians as the autochthonous founders of Benin kingship around 900. These Ogiso rulers are assumed to have been replaced between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries by kings of the later Oba dynasty, which supposedly descends from the Yoruba town of Ife and which continues in office at the present.The abundance of literature on the early history of the Benin kingdom often hides the fact that, apart from sporadic—and for the most part isolated—reports from travelers, a few archeological accounts, and some vaguely dated objects from Benin, the reconstruction of the early history of Benin is based almost exclusively on the data of the Bini local historian Jacob Egharevba, who published prolifically on Benin history and culture from 1930 to 1970. The most famous of his works is the Short History of Benin—a small publication, where the author deals with the history of the kingdom from its origins until the twentieth century.

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Mardjoua, Barpougouni. "Niyanpangu-bansu: An Important Archaeological Site for the Reconstitution of the History of Caravan Trade in Northern Benin." Journal of African Archaeology 18, no. 2 (December 17, 2020): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21915784-20200014.

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Abstract Regarding the history of Borgu (North Benin), well-known events are the legend of Kisra, the war of Ilorin (1835-1836), and the destruction of the city named Niyanpangu. Referred to as Niyanpangu-bansu after its destruction, this archaeological site is known mostly from oral tradition and is located approximately three hundred kilometers west of Nikki (northeast Benin Republic). It has great historical significance which could contribute to our understanding of the history of caravan trade in northern Benin. This paper presents the results of the first ever archaeological research on the site in 2013 and 2014.

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Goerg, Odile, and Helene D'Almeida-Topor. "Histoire economique du Dahomey (Benin) (1890-1920)." Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, no. 51 (July 1996): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3771340.

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VON HELLERMANN, PAULINE, and UYILAWA USUANLELE. "THE OWNER OF THE LAND: THE BENIN OBAS AND COLONIAL FOREST RESERVATION IN THE BENIN DIVISION, SOUTHERN NIGERIA." Journal of African History 50, no. 2 (July 2009): 223–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002185370999003x.

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AbstractColonial forest reservation in the Benin Division of southern Nigeria was remarkably extensive, with reserves taking up almost 65 per cent of the Division by 1937. This paper explores both the various strategies employed by the colonial government in order to bring about large scale reservation and the role of reservation in changing land politics. In doing so, it provides nuanced insights into the interaction between the colonial government and local rulers under indirect rule. It shows that both Oba Eweka II (1914–33) and Oba Akenzua II (1933–79) supported reservation for strategic reasons, but also highlights the government's many underhand tactics in dealing with the Obas.

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Chabi, Maurice. "Benin: growing pains." Index on Censorship 21, no. 7 (July 1992): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229208535389.

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Jell-Bahlsen, Sabine, Paula Girshick Ben-Amos, Michael Kan, Roy Sieber, David W. Penney, Mary Nooter, and Helen M. Shannon. "The Art of Benin." International Journal of African Historical Studies 30, no. 3 (1997): 622. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220589.

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Bondarenko, Dmitri M. "Advent of the Second (Oba) Dynasty: Another Assessment of a Benin History Key Point." History in Africa 30 (2003): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003144.

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There is no other theme in precolonial Benin Kingdom studies around which so many lances have been broken as that of consolidation of the present-day Second (Oba) dynasty and the person of its founder Oranmiyan (Oranyan in Yoruba). The main reason for this is the existence of considerable disagreements between numerous Bini and Yoruba versions of the oral historical tradition. Besides this, the story of Oranmiyan is one of the Bini and Yoruba oral history pages most tightly connected with mythology. This fact becomes especially important if one takes into account that the oral tradition is no doubt the main (though not the only) source on the consolidation of the Oba Dynasty in Benin. The key point on which different Bini and Yoruba traditions openly contradict each other, and which scholars debate, is the origin of the Dynasty. Who initiated its founding: Bini or Yoruba? Was it a request or a conquest? Are the characters of the oral tradition relations historical figures? Finally, what were historical, sociocultural, and political circumstances of the Oba accession?If one disengages from details, three groups of traditional versions that describe the origin and life of Oranmiyan (including its period connected with Benin) can be distinguished. These groups may be designated as the Yoruba one, the Benin “official” (i.e., traditionally recognized by Oba themselves and most widely spread among common Bini) and Benin “apocryphal” traditions. In the meantime it should be borne in mind that Bini and Yoruba native gatherers and publishers of the oral historical tradition could influence each other. For example, the Yoruba Johnson could influence the Bini Egharevba, while the latter in his turn could influence another Yoruba, Fabunmi, and so on.

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WILLETT, F., and E. V. SAYRE. "THE ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION OF BENIN MEMORIAL HEADS." Archaeometry 42, no. 1 (February 2000): 159–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2000.tb00874.x.

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McIntosh, Susan Keech. "Two thousand years in Dendi, northern Benin: archaeology, history, memory." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 54, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 277–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2019.1604618.

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Thornton, John K. "Traditions, Documents, and the Ife-Benin Relationship." History in Africa 15 (1988): 351–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171867.

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Historians of Nigeria have been curious for many years about the relationship between the various states of the southern zone since the sixteenth century. The fact that the area has produced a rich art, has a fairly elaborate set of traditional histories, and has been the subject of some systematic archeological work means that the modern scholar has somewhat more to go on in reconstructing the region's history than just the fairly sparse and disappointing contemporary texts that came out of the early Portuguese contacts and subsequent European trade and navigation. But contemporary documentation for southern Nigeria remains much weaker than that for other African areas, such as the central African zone, Gold Coast, or the western Atlantic coast.Nevertheless, documents have raised problems in understanding the history of the area that cannot be fully solved by recourse to the other sources of information, in spite of the comparative richness of non-documentary sources. One of these documentary problems is the issue of the Ife-Benin relationship as documentated in archeology, contemporary texts, and art history. The problems raised by the relationship between these two southern Nigerian cities ultimately reflects on a much larger set of questions concerning the relationship of all the early states south of the Niger, at a period quite near the origin of the state system that would predominate the rest of the pre-colonial period.

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Fenske, James. "The battle for rubber in Benin." Economic History Review 67, no. 4 (February 25, 2014): 1012–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.12044.

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Laloupo, Francis. "Taking bets on Benin." Index on Censorship 21, no. 4 (April 1992): 19–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229208535325.

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Osadolor, Osarhieme Benson, and Leo Enahoro Otoide. "The Benin Kingdom in British Imperial Historiography." History in Africa 35 (January 2008): 401–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.0.0014.

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The body of knowledge that constituted British imperial writing, and the expression that interacted with it were attempts to engage European readership on the imperial adventure in Africa in the age of the new imperialism. This study is an attempt to address the complex issues involved in the production of historical knowledge about precolonial Benin to justify British colonial rule. The argument advanced in this paper is that, since imperial discourse set out to deal with history in terms of civilization, British imperial writing was a struggle to articulate certain ideas about Benin into a position of dominance before the British public. As Mary Louise Pratt explains, “depicting the civilizing mission as an aesthetic project is a strategy the west has often used for defining others as available for and in need of its benign and beautifying intervention.” British imperial discourse will form the basis of the discussion in this paper.Imperial discourse and its subjectivity raises questions about issues of power and privilege of those writers who were determined to sustain their voices in the debate on European imperialism in Africa. Their approach to the constitution of knowledge about Benin was one of many ways that opened the frontiers of knowledge about African states and societies to redefine civilization, albeit for the purposes of understanding various meanings and implications in this intellectual assault. This provides a vital entry point for examining the European colonial approach to the construction of the image of Africa. The aim is to demonstrate how this process suggests a connection from imperial expansionism to forms of knowledge and expression that reaffirmed metropolitan authority in the context of colonial subjugation.

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Ade, Serge, Mênonli Adjobimey, Gildas Agodokpessi, Marie Sylvie Kouassi, Fabien A. Gounongbe, Ibrahim Cisse, and Spero H. R. Hounkpatin. "Asthma Symptoms in Bakeries at Parakou, Benin." Pulmonary Medicine 2020 (January 30, 2020): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/3767382.

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Background and Objectives. There is a dearth of information on asthma among bakers in low-income settings. The objectives of this study were to determine (i) the prevalence of asthma symptoms, (ii) factors associated with probable occupational asthma (OA), and (iii) work habits that might lead to a dusty workplace environment, Parakou, Benin. Materials and Methods. This was a mixed methods (cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative) study carried out between March and September 2018. Results. Of 210 employees/apprentices in 26 bakeries, 190 (91.48%) were included in the study: median age was 25.50 (IQR=22−32) years, 157 (82.63%) were aged <40 years, and the male-to-female ratio was 26.14. Of these, 111 (58.42%) worked in a salted bread and 79 (41.58%) in a sweet bread bakery. An asthma history was reported by 3.68%. Symptoms consistent with asthma, work-related asthma, OA, and work-aggravated asthma were found in 13.68%, 12.63%, 10%, and 2.63%, respectively. Asthma confirmation was obtained in 15.79% of bakers with probable OA and in 23.08% of all bakers with suspected asthma. A history of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis was associated with probable OA (aOR=106; 95%CI=17.79−2093; p<0.001). Of the 24 bakers with probable work-related asthma, 3 (12.50%) were prescribed a short-acting beta2-agonist and 2 (8.33%) an inhaled corticosteroid. No worker had had a systematically planned annual medical visit; some habits at work were identified as leading to flour and dust suspension at the workplace. Conclusion. Clinical manifestations of OA were common among bakers in Parakou and were associated with allergic rhinoconjunctivitis. There is a need to improve technical preventive measures and treatment, as well as to institute systematic medical visits for these workers.

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Wood, Paul. "Display, Restitution and World Art History: The Case of the ‘Benin Bronzes’." Visual Culture in Britain 13, no. 1 (March 2012): 115–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2012.641854.

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Ozougwu, Sally N., Ademola A. Adeyekun, Juliet N. Ese-Onakehwor, and Elo E. Efe-Aluta. "Sonographic features of patients with ocular trauma at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin-City." Annals of Health Research 4, no. 2 (December 9, 2018): 174–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.30442/ahr.0402-9-20.

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Background: The human eye is vulnerable to various external injuries. This is in spite of the seemingly adequate protection offered by the bony orbit. Ultrasound, as a non-invasive and safe imaging modality, is very useful in evaluating the orbit as the globe provides a perfect acoustic window. There is a need for an update on the sonographic patterns of ocular trauma in Nigeria. Objective: To sonographically assess the features of ocular trauma at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital. Methods: Eighty patients with ocular injuries were studied over an 8-month period. After detailed history taking, using a closed eye technique, each patient was scanned with a 5-12MHz linear array probe of a SONOACE X4 Machine. Results: The 18-35 years age group was most affected and the right eye was more frequently involved. The most common sources of injury were intraocular foreign bodies (26; 32.5%), assault (20; 25%) and road traffic accidents (18; 22.50%). Mechanical injuries were more common, comprising 44 (56.4%) cases of blunt trauma and 34 (43.6%) cases of penetrating trauma. The most common sonographic findings included vitreous haemorrhage, intraocular foreign bodies and retinal detachment. Conclusion: Posterior chamber findings (vitreous haemorrhage and retinal detachment) were more frequent than anterior chamber findings in ocular trauma.

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Chebanenko, Sergey B. "Regarding the problem of restitution of African art pieces removed from Benin during the British military expedition of 1897: practice and legal aspects." Issues of Museology 11, no. 2 (2020): 319–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu27.2020.214.

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The question of the fate of the “Benin bronze” is part of a more general problem of the restitution of African art pieces exported from the continent, during the period of European colonial rule. The difference between the history of the looting of the monuments of the Benin Kingdom (the territory of modern Nigeria) by British troops from many other examples of the removal of original African heritage, is in the fact, that in this case there was a robbery committed as a result of a military conflict, both sides of which were politically independent. The political independence of each party, strictly speaking, does not allow for the situation to be considered in the system of relations “metropolis — colony”. Modern owners of Benin monuments, spread across a number of museums and other collections in the world, recognize the injustice of their acquisitions, but they do not always recognize the possibility and necessity of restitution of these artifacts. This is facilitated by the complexity of the history of objects after their exportation from Africa and the absence of, in most cases, legal grounds for their direct return. Recently, the situation has changed significantly, making it possible to transfer a vast portion of art pieces, originating from Benin, on the basis of not so much the letter of the law, but on the desire to restore justice.

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Manning, Patrick. "Hegelian Dialectics in Benin Kingdom Historiography." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 20, no. 3 (1986): 431. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/484450.

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Onovoh, Paul, and Iro Eweka. "From Dawn to Dusk: Folktales from Benin." International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, no. 3 (1998): 713. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221531.

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Bondarenko, Dmitri M., and Peter M. Roese. "Between the Ogiso and Oba Dynasties: An Interpretation of Interregnum in the Benin Kingdom." History in Africa 31 (2004): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003417.

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The evidence for the period separating the times of the two Benin dynasties, that of the ogiso and that of the oba, is extremely scanty and does not look very trustworthy. There are not even any direct indications as to the time when the events under consideration took place. However, an analysis of the Second dynasty's history allows to arrive at the conclusion that the events preceding its advent to power could date from the late twelth and early thirteenth centuries (Bondarenko 2001:160n64; 2003). There are no possibilities for giving a more concrete date, nor for the exact calculation of the respective periods' length. However, the scant information about it still permits an interpretation of the very events of that time (though it looks like none of the professional Benin students has ever attempted it). In fact, we have either to operate with the sources which are in our disposal, or abandon trying to reconstruct an important episode of the Benin kingdom's history and concede that we must categorically deny the very possibility of giving any credit to information provided mainly by oral tradition and ethnography.

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Eisenhofer, Stefan. "The Benin Kinglist/s: Some Questions of Chronology." History in Africa 24 (January 1997): 139–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172022.

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The chronology of the history of the Benin kingdom is seen by many historians as clarified in the main back to the thirteenth century and even earlier. Apart from the reports of European travelers and missionaries and some information given by merchants, this chronology is based mainly on the Benin kinglist for the periods before 1897. This list names 38 kings (obas) of Benin and covers past centuries with seemingly great accuracy (see table 1).In spite of the many names of former obas and the pretended accuracy of the list's time-frame, it would be problematic to take it as historically factual since it cannot be corroborated by any documentation before the mid-nineteenth century. The data concerning the period before this time are almost exclusively based on the writings of the Benin amateur historian Jacob Egharevba. In his work Egharevba reported on important events in the oral traditions of Benin and connected the reign of former kings with specific years. In doing so he forced his African oral material into a linear European time scheme and into the framework specified by European written sources.Unfortunately, very few historians have as yet critically analyzed the chronological data for Benin. This is surprising, since the great Benin researcher Bradbury noted some time ago that Egharevba's “chronological conclusions have been accepted too uncritically, especially for the period up to the first European contact” (Bradbury 1959:285f) and have been seen as historical facts without any further consideration ever since. Neither the question of so-called “genealogical parasitism,” nor any of the other fundamental problems which arise when studying kinglists have been addressed.

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KAPLAN, FLORA EDOUWAYE S. "IYOBA, THE QUEEN MOTHER OF BENIN." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 810, no. 1 Queens, Queen (June 1997): 73–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48125.x.

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Soumonni, Elisée. "Disease, religion and medicine: smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin." História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 19, suppl 1 (December 2012): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702012000500003.

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The essay examines, with special reference to smallpox, the perception and interpretation of disease in pre-colonial Dahomey, present-day Republic of Benin. Because disease is seen primarily as a punishment from the gods and not just as a medical problem or a bodily disorder, traditional cult priests play a leading role in making diagnoses and prescribing remedies, mostly based on medicinal plants. The prominence of Sakpata, god of smallpox, coupled with the influence of its priests is evaluated within the context of Dahomey's political history and the spread of the disease. This pivotal position was to constitute a challenge to the French colonial campaign to vaccinate against smallpox.

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Alber, Erdmute. "Politics of Kinship: Child Fostering in Dahomey/Benin." Cahiers d'études africaines, no. 234 (June 15, 2019): 359–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.25790.

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Usuanlele, Uyilawa, and Toyin Falola. "A Comparison of Jacob Egharevba's Ekhere Vb Itan Edo and the Four Editions of Its English Translation, A Short History Of Benin." History in Africa 25 (1998): 361–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172194.

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One of the most popular and most widely cited books in the study of precolonial Africa, particularly of the forest region, is Jacob U. Egharevba's A Short History of Benin. It was first published in the Edo language as Ekhere vb Itan Edo in 1933, and due to its popularity and very high demand, it quickly sold out and was reprinted in 1934. It was then translated by the author and published in English as A Short History of Benin in 1936. This English-language edition has likewise been a bestseller with four editions—the first edition in 1936, the second in 1953, the third in 1960, and the fourth one in 1968, which in turn has had reprints in Ibadan (1991) and Benin City (1994).In 1959 Leoham Adam, Curator of the Ethnographical Collection of Melbourne University in Australia, who claimed to have first read the book in the 1930s, commended Short History for its useful contributions to the study and understanding of African societies. The late R.E. Bradbury, in writing the first foreword to the book's third edition in 1960, claimed that it”…has become something of a classic, known and relied upon not only in Nigeria, but by scholars all over the world, [as]… a valuable, indeed an indispensable, pioneering work.” In a more recent critique, Adiele Afigbo asserted that the book and its thesis has “much support from many respected historians and ethnographers… and figure prominently not only in undergraduate essays but also in Masters and Doctoral dissertations.”

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Otebhi, G. E., and H. B. Osadolor. "Essential Trace Element Status of Pregnant Women with Pregnancy Complication History in Benin City, Nigeria." Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management 23, no. 10 (November 21, 2019): 1829–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jasem.v23i10.10.

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Essential trace elements are catalytic substances needed by the human body in small amount. The objective of this study was to determine the serum levels of selected essential trace elements (copper, zinc, iron and selenium) in pregnant women with history of pregnancy complications in Benin City, Nigeria using appropriate standard methods for blood. Sample collection and analysed by EAAS. Result showed that pregnant women with complications history had blood mean (mean ± SEM) levels of Copper (µg/l) =107.47± 0.18, Zinc (µg/l) = 86.19 ± 0.41, Iron (µg/l) = 108.50 ± 0.18 and Selenium (µg/l)=42.13± 0.39; while those without complications history had blood mean levels of Copper=125.65 ± 1.60, Zinc =91.91± 0.84, Iron=112.26± 0.33 and Selenium=46.47± 0.32.The non-pregnant women who never had complications in their previous pregnancies had blood mean levels of Copper =129.91± 1.49, Zinc=108.08± 0.52, Iron=136.58± 0.80 and Selenium=51.32 ± 0.10. Pregnant women with complications history recorded very high significant reduction (P<0.001) in the essential trace elements mean values compared to pregnant and non-pregnant women without complications. Reduction in the essential trace elements has negative impact on the development of pregnancy complications among pregnant women in Benin City, Nigeria.Keywords: Essential, Elements, Pregnancy, Complications

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Gayibor, Nicoue L., and Montserrat Palau Marti. "Societe et Religion au Benin (Les Sabe-Opara)." International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, no. 1 (1995): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221338.

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Bay, Edna G., and Paula Girshick Ben-Amos. "Art, Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin." International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 479. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220733.

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Djebbari, Elina. "Dancing salsa in Benin: Connecting the Creole Atlantic." Atlantic Studies 17, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 110–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2019.1697579.

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Ogen, Olukoya. "Exploring the Potential of Praise Poems for Historical Reconstruction among the Idepe-Ikale in Southeastern Yorubaland." History in Africa 39 (2012): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2012.0002.

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Abstract:The existing body of literature on the origin of the Idepe-Ikale suggests a Benin provenance and an ethno-cultural identity for the generality of the Idepe-Ikale. This paper argues that this claim has largely been sustained by the excessive reliance on archival sources for the reconstruction Ikale pre-colonial history. It, therefore, draws primarily on evidence from praise poems and partly from historical linguistics and ethnography in its examination of the ethnic identity of the Idepe-Ikale, a major Ikale sub-group in southeastern Yorubaland. With this methodological shift, the paper establishes the fact that culturally and linguistically, the Idepe-Ikale are of the Yoruba ethnic stock rather than of Benin extraction. Thus, the paper casts doubts on the prevailing consensus on Idepe's Benin origin and identity and concludes that palace promoted and colonial-backed constructions of ethnic identities should be thoroughly scrutinised to correct mistaken notions about identity formation.

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Habermas, Rebekka. "Benin Bronzen im Kaiserreich – oder warum koloniale Objekte so viel Ärger machen." Historische Anthropologie 25, no. 3 (November 27, 2017): 327–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7788/ha-2017-0303.

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Usuanlele, Uyilawa, and Toyin Falola. "The Scholarship of Jacob Egharevba of Benin." History in Africa 21 (1994): 303–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171890.

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Uwadiae Jacob Egharevba was born in 1893 to a descendant of Ohenmwen, the Iyase of Benin Kingdom during the reign of Osemwende, ca. 1816 to ca. 1848, and Okunzuwa, a granddaughter of an Ibadan chief. Jacob's parents were long-distance traders, and he claimed to have traveled with them in the Benin and Yoruba regions until his father's death in 1902. The brief sojourn in the Yoruba country afforded him the opportunity of attending school for a year in 1899, at a time when there was no such facility in Benin because of the reluctance of the traditional elite to send their children to school. Jacob was impressed by the written word and became interested in education, although it was not until 1911 that he returned to school at Akure. He demonstrated brilliance, although his education here was terminated by relocation. On his return to Benin in 1914, he became a domestic help to Black Shaw, a senior European staff of the Public Works Department, while at the same time enrolling at St. Matthews C.M.S. school. In 1915 he converted to Christianity and, with the encouragement of Shaw and others, he was able to complete his primary education in 1916.Between 1916 and 1921, he worked in lowly paid jobs in Warri, Port Harcourt, and Okigwe. His failure to secure any lucrative government position pushed him to trading. His writing career began in 1921 when he drafted his now famous classic, Ekhere Vb'Itan Edo. Ironically, it was this successful book that exposed his writing inadequacies. To improve his skills, he enrolled in 1926 in a five-year correspondence course with the Institute of Rationalistic Press in London. In 1933 the C.M.S. published the Ekhere Vb'Itan, which attained an instant success. It was reprinted the following year and translated as A Short History of Benin.

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Rubain, Bankole Adéyèmi, and Guy Sourou Nouatin. "Craftsmen Perception of the Dual Apprenticeship in Benin." International Journal of Social Science Research 9, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijssr.v9i1.17905.

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This paper analyzes the craftsmen perception of dual apprenticeship in Benin. The introduction of dual apprenticeship in technical vocational education and training system has established new structural arrangements in the apprenticeship system. The apprentices must leave the workshop for one day of theoretical instructions and practical knowledge. By assessing how this alternative system of apprenticeship is perceived, this research adopted a qualitative method. It was conducted in Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi and Parakou with the collaboration of the master craftsmen including staff members of professional associations, apprentices, trainers and heads of the vocational training centers. Purposive sampling and snowball sampling technique were applied to select them. In total, 66 participants have been interviewed. Data collection was carried out through life-history and individual semi-structured interview. First, six adopters’ categories were identified. The innovators are those who participated in the curriculum development. The early adopters include staff members of professional associations. Early majority and late majority adopters take into account craftsmen members of the professional associations, especially leaders from associations. Laggards are those who remain connected to the traditional apprenticeship. Besides, another category was identified, business users to describe the training centers that recruit their apprentices. Apprentices who participate in the program are motivated by curiosity and by explicit knowledge from vocational training centers. Master craftsmen are satisfied with the program because of its formal certificate.

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Robion-Brunner, Caroline, Anne Haour, Marie-Pierre Coustures, Louis Champion, and Didier Béziat. "Iron Production in Northern Benin: Excavations at Kompa Moussékoubou." Journal of African Archaeology 13, no. 1 (November 1, 2015): 39–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3213/2191-5784-10263.

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In the context of the “Crossroads of Empires” project led by Anne Haour, one strand of enquiry aims to understand the history of blacksmith groups and the development of iron production in Dendi country, in the northern Republic of Benin. Numerous remains of iron production have been discovered, showing a great variability in furnace design and waste assemblages. At least three smelting traditions can be distinguished. In this paper, we present the smelting site of Kompa Moussékoubou (10th/11th c. AD) which has been investigated by archaeological and archaeometric methods. Beyond the archaeometallurgical results, the excavation of a 1 x 2 m trench on a settlement mound nearby and survey work, which place the site within its wider context, are also discussed. In particular, we offer a detailed analysis of the ceramics recovered during test pitting and within one of the furnaces itself. This paper thus offers a rare opportunity to combine archaeometallurgical and ceramics data.

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Barnes, Sandra T., and Edna G. Bay. "Asen: Iron Altars of the Fon People of Benin." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 3 (1987): 517. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219702.

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THORNTON, JOHN K. "SYNTHESIS OF BENIN HISTORY A Popular History of Benin. By PETER M. ROESE and DMITRI M. BONDARENKO. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 391. £33/$55.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8204-6079-6)." Journal of African History 46, no. 3 (November 2005): 508–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853705221333.

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Roberts, Allen F., and Paula Girshick Ben-Amos. "Art, Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 35, no. 1 (2001): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/486358.

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Sax, Joseph L. "Jordanna Bailkin, The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britain. Pp. xii, 320. $35.00. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004." International Journal of Cultural Property 12, no. 3 (August 2005): 443–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739105000238.

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The abundance of literature dealing with the Parthenon Marbles, the Benin Bronzes, and NAGPRA has made it seem that conflict over the fate of patrimonial property is always a story about contemporary society's encounter with its colonial past. Professor Bailkin's recent book reveals a considerably more varied, complex, and multi-layered history of cultural property controversies.

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KANTROWITZ, RACHEL A. "CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AS ‘A NATION IN MINIATURE’: CATHOLIC CIVISM IN SENEGAL AND BENIN, 1960–1970s." Journal of African History 59, no. 2 (July 2018): 221–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853718000300.

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AbstractCatholic school alumni played a crucial role in shaping Senegal and Benin in the first decades after independence.1Though they came from a variety of religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, they nevertheless strongly identified with their Catholic schooling experience. Indeed, these West African alumni composed a distinct social group that had been inculcated in the habits and values of ‘Catholic civism’, an ideology based around public service, self-discipline, moral restraint, honesty, and community. While many studies of educated youth emphasize their political activism, Catholic school youth engaged in the subtler process of shaping their new countries by transforming colonial-era institutions from within. Beyond politics, students who graduated in the early independence era used Catholic civism as both a social marker and an implicit social critique.

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Kaplan, Flora S. "Some uses of photographs in recovering cultural history at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria." Visual Anthropology 3, no. 2-3 (January 1990): 317–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08949468.1990.9966537.

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Alber, Erdmute. "Verwandtschaftshandeln in einer ökonomisch auseinanderdriftenden Gesellschaft: Eine Hochzeit in Benin (Westafrika)." L'Homme 30, no. 1 (April 7, 2020): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/lhom.2020.31.1.121.

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Gayibor, Nicoue, and Montserrat Palau Marti. "L'Histoire de Sabe et de ses Rois (Republique du Benin)." International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, no. 1 (1998): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220934.

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Houngnon, Alfred, Aristide C. Adomou, William D. Gosling, and Peter A. Adeonipekun. "A checklist of vascular plants of Ewe-Adakplame Relic Forest in Benin, West Africa." PhytoKeys 175 (April 12, 2021): 151–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.175.61467.

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Covering 560.14 hectares in the south-east of Benin, the Ewe-Adakplame Relic Forest (EARF) is a micro-refugium that shows insular characteristics within the Dahomey Gap. It is probably one of the last remnants of tropical rain forest that would have survived the late Holocene dry period. Based on intensive field investigations through 25 plots (10 × 50 m size) and matching of herbarium specimens, a checklist of 185 species of vascular plant belonging to 54 families and 142 genera is presented for this forest. In addition to the name for each taxon, we described the life form following Raunkiaer’s definitions, chorology as well as threats to habitat. The Rubiaceae family was the richest (20 species) followed by the Fabaceae (15 species). Life forms showed the preponderance of phanerophytes (88%). The Chorological spectrum was dominated by Guineo-Congolean species (66%). Species richness estimated were 200.52 ± 9.2808 for Bootstrap; 217.62 ± 14.5972; 224.16 ± 15.3725 and 242.67 respectively for Chao, Jacknife1 and Jacknife2. Bootstrap appears to be the estimation closer to the field records. In Benin, EARF is home for Rinorea species described as West African forest bio-indicators and single location for Nesogordonia papaverifera, Mansonia altissima, Englerophytum oblanceolatum, Octolobus spectabilis, Vitex micrantha and most of Drypeteae tribe species (Drypetes aframensis, Drypetes afzelii, Drypetes gilgiana and Drypetes leonensis) recorded in Benin. Our results provides baseline information for further in-depth analysis of vegetation history in Benin by raising the question on the past floristic connection of the Dahomey gap and community engagement in conservation.

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Ross, Jane, and Carolyn Fishel Sargent. "Maternity, Medicine, and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 26, no. 1 (1992): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485427.

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Ran Forte, Jung. "Marketing Vodun. Cultural Tourism and Dreams of Success in Contemporary Benin." Cahiers d'études africaines 49, no. 193-194 (June 20, 2009): 429–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.18767.

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LOPASIC, ALEXANDER. "GENDER AND TRADITIONAL VILLAGE ART IN BENIN PROVINCE, NIGERIA." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 810, no. 1 Queens, Queen (June 1997): 425–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48139.x.

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Northrup, David. "New Evidence of the French Slave-Trade in the Bight of Benin." Slavery & Abolition 24, no. 3 (December 2003): 61–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440390308559168.

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Kaplan, Flora S. "Fragile Legacy: Photographs as Documents in Recovering Political and Cultural History at the Royal Court of Benin." History in Africa 18 (1991): 205–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172063.

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Photographs create a tantalizing sense of “being there” while history was being made. They offer a means of entry into cultures that are historically non-literate, stimulating informants' memories and linking their oral traditions to specific events and persons in the culture. Their research potential in West Africa and in Nigeria, in particular, is only now being recognized (Edwards 1990; Kaplan 1990: 317-319; Scherer 1990: 131, 135, 139, 141, 145; Sprague 1978; Viditz-Ward 1985; 1991). The focus here is on photographs connected with the royal court of Benin, and with ongoing ethnographic field work initiated in 1982.1 Special attention is given to photographs taken between 1926 and 1989 by S. O. Alonge, the first indigenous and Benin royal photographer. His work illuminates political and cultural history, and contributes to the beginnings of a history of photography in Nigeria.Evocative images have been used to illustrate books and articles about West Africa.since the early days of nineteenth-century photography. Studies of visuals, however, taken in Nigeria by indigenous photographers and reported systematic uses of photographs in research designs are still rare (Borgatti 1982; Kaplan 1980, 1991a, 1991b; Karpinski 1984; Sprague 1978). Most research extant on early uses of visuals has been on cinema (Rouch 1975a, 1975b). There has been serious interest in the condition and circumstances of Nigeria cinema and filmmakers, and a desire to create a history of African film (Mathias 1986). The impetus to codify and to create methods for the study of film and stills in anthropology points to a growing awareness of their potential as much more than entertainment and illustration. Photographs are best been as behavior and ideas captured and expressed in imagery, and studied much as we do material culture.

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