Centuries before modern engineering, the Edo people built 16,000 km of walls, moats, and ramparts that protected one of Africa’s greatest kingdoms.This cinematic 70-second story reveals:• How Oba Oguola ordered the legendary wall• How generations of Edo craftsmen built a living fortress• Why the world rarely talks about this global wonder• How colonial forces destroyed much of it• And why the legacy still lives in the soil of modern Benin CityIf you love forgotten history, Africa’s hidden wonder

The Difference between Edo and Benin. I still can’t understand why my Edo brothers (not all) can’t come to terms with reality that IGBANKE is not Benin. Moreover, Benin is a geographical location and name of a city that ends before the Okhuae river by ikhuen. In fact, years back the city is not as large as it is now it was naturally and basically marked by the iya (moat) and we all know that places like Ugbekun in those days were not known as Benin city but a farming community. So, if places lik

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