The African Kingdom Europe Feared and Exploited

from Rewinding History · host Revolute Network

Benin was wealthy, organized, and powerful long before colonial powers arrived. But greed, violence, and invasion would drag one of Africa’s greatest kingdoms into catastrophe.

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