Special Report: Coronation Of The Oba Of Benin, Oba Ewuare II Pt 1

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This is very false, First of all, there is no such thing as “Izoduwa”, “Idoduwa”, “Imadoduwa”, or “Omonoyan” in Benin oral tradition. Neither was any oduduwa banished as collected by earlier benin writings ekaladerhan and oduduwa are completely different personalities These are only present in Benin forged stories which were invented in the 1970s. I would clarify. Historians, for example, name these forged stories [of “Izoduwa”, “Idoduwa”, “Imadoduwa”, or “Omonoyan”] as the Benin “deliberately unauthentic” stories. Do historians regard these stories as forgery simply because they woke up on the wrong side of the bed feeling that way? Obviously not. These [“Izoduwa”, “Idoduwa”, “Imadoduwa”, or “Omonoyan”] stories are found to be forgeries for the simple reason that much earlier documented Benin tradition debunks these stories. For example, some eighty (80) years before these [“Izoduwa”, “Idoduwa”, “Imadoduwa”, or “Omonoyan”] stories were invented, Mr. Cyril Punch had documented the Benin tradition about Ekaladerhan. Mr Cyril Punch’s documentation of the tradition about Ekaladerhan around the year 1889 (and quoted in Roth 1903) shows categorically that Ekaladerhan has absolutely nothing to do with Ife. The beginning and ending of the Ekaladerhan episode from Mr Cyril Punch’s documentation as quoted in H. L. Roth, 1903, pp. 53-54. is as follows: Ekaladerhan fled Benin due to a grave scandal; he then founded the kingdom of Ughoton; he ultimately reached a mutual solemn compromise with Benin, namely that: His “independent sovereignty” is allowed at his new kingdom of Ughoton, the Binis eventually allowed him his independence at Ughoton - the only condition they gave was that he is not allowed to return to Benin. Following this documentation of the Benin episode of Ekaladerhan (which shows both his independent sovereignty at Ughoton and his truce with Benin); Chief Egharevba also grew up to independently collect the same tradition about Ekaladerhan some fifty (50) years after Punch. It took another 80+ years after Punch for some Binis(Omoregie 1970, Edebiri 1970, Akenzua 1971, and Iyare 1973) to to attempt a reversal of the already documented Benin episode of Ekaladerhan which the Oba being coronated in view now popularized The first of these Bini equates Ekaladerhan as one and the same person with Oranmiyan. However, those who followed his lead thought it was better to equate him with Oduduwa instead. The extant, classical and “official” Benin account is that Ife founded your Oba monarchy. It wasn’t until the 1970s that some binis claimed that Ekalderhan is Oduduwa. The first of this said ekaladerhan was oranmiyan by chief omoregie then at the time of the coronation of the oba in view ekaladerhan was now oduduwa himself. Even going by Benin sources (the earliest indigenous Benin sources on the subject for that matter), says the Ogiso chiefdom dynasty itself of “Benin” was sent from Ife to benin Many years ago, Oduduwa of Ile-Ife sent a son - who took the title of Ogiso - with a large retinue from Ife to found a kingdom in this part of the world. ~ Chief Obakhavbaye of Benin, J. U. Egharevba, “A Short History of Benin,” (1936), p. 7. Furthermore, Oduduwa(odu to da iwa.. The source or creator of being or wisdom) is a yoruba name with a meaning in the language. There's no record of any ekaladerhan in ife or anything indigenous benin in ife. Where oduduwa came from is very clear it was the hilly settlement of oke-ora near the ife bowl this is collected in ife oral history, instead we see a lot of yoruba-ife influences in the benin monarchy for example in the praise appellation of the oba for instance; ovbi adimula(son of adimula(a title of Oduduwa), Abieyuwa N’Ovbi Odua N’uhe The son of the wealthy Odua of Uhe(Ife), you don't see ekaladerhan or some izoduwa there. Also the names of the past kings of benin which can't be broken down etymologically in bini i.e ewuare formerly prince OGUN then became ewuare(ewu-a-re.... trouble has ceased) ogidigan(o-gi-di-gan means it is very great or tough in yoruba) the bini dictionary itself is filled with a lot of words which are clearly referenced from the yoruba language. The ugie oduduwa festival celebrates oduduwa and oranmiyan and not ekaladerhan or ogiso owodo

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