Since history isn’t taught in schools here’s are some fun facts about the kingdom of benin.
Note: the thread is meant to show you how The Edo people were ahead but white washed history has made us think we were vile and Neanderthals

The greatness of the ancient city of Benin predates the European renascence

D walls of Benin City n its surrounding kingdom is d wrlds largst earthwork carried out prior 2 d mechanical era.According 2 estimates.Benin City’s walls were at one point 4 times longer dan d Great Wall of China n consumed a 100 times more material than d Great Pyramid of Cheops

Benin City ws 1 of d first cities to hv a semblance of street lighting.Huge metal lamps,mny feet high,were built and placed around d city,especially near d king’s palace.Fuelled by palm oil,their burning wicks were lit @ night to provide illumination 4 traffic to nd frm d palace.

Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi refused the invasion and colonialition of the benin kingdoms, so the British empires exiled him and stole artifacts from the Benin kingdom(including the mask of Queen idia) and burnt the kingdom down (read one the Benin expedition of 1897

Benin City’s planning and design were done according to careful rules of symmetry,proportionality n repetition now knwn as fractal design.d mathematician Ron Eglash,author f African Fractals,notes dt d city n its surrounding villages wre purposely laid out 2 form perfect fractals

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

In conclusion just like the ancient city of Benin many other African cities existed and survived on matriarchy, an almost perfect agrarian society before colonization