THE EFFICACY OF THE ENTHRONEMENT OF OBA OF BENIN AND THE CULTURAL IMPLICATION
Abstract The study provides an historical overview to the legitimacy and enthronement process of the Oba of Benin Kingdom from coming to power of the Oba dynasty till the British conquest. It is argued that the Benin Kingdom between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries was a super-complex society but not a state, as it was not based on suprakin (territorial) social ties and there was no professional (bureaucratic) administration in ...
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