by
Okpame Oronsaye
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Benin Empire flourished as an independent kingdom in the present-day southern Nigeria. On February 19, 1897, a combined British Navy and Niger Coast Protectorate Force, code-named "Benin Punitive Expedition", captured Benin City, the kingdom's capital city. According to the British official statement,...