OzikoroOba Ewuare the Great: The Warrior-King Who Built the Benin Empire
The story of the Benin Empire is inseparable from the reign of one man, Oba Ewuare the Great who reigned from 1440-1473 was known as a warrior, reformer, and visionary, Ewuare’s leadership transformed Benin from a struggling kingdom into one of the most powerful and sophisticated states in pre-colonial West Africa. Emerging from a period…