A History of the Forest Kingdom of Benin.
With artwork to rival that of renaissance Italy, structures comparable to the Great Wall of China, and a ruthlessly disciplined army, the Forest Kingdom of Benin is one of the highlights in Africa’s great history. It derives its name from the lush rainforests in which the Edo people first settled in the 900s. The people called their kingdom the igodomigodo and the head went by the name of Ogiso, the ‘ruler of the sky’. This dynasty of rulers came to an end in the 1100s, and the