Ancient Yoruba, Benin kingdom, Nok and Ife

All of these west African cultures are connected, and created what we would call the Benin Empire. Most African Americans would more and likely be descendants of many of these people. There needs to be more work done in this area because they are always finding new things.

Many racist would like to say blacks never built anything, or had any empires, but we did. As usual it was always destroyed, or interrupted by European, Spanish, or British conquest.

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Take note:
- Advanced life like sculpture, art,
- Military (legions)
- Trade routes etc
- Kings, and a structured Dynasty lineage
- Court life
- Secret writing language for high ranking people only
- Court life sophistication like any other empire ( Europe etc)
- Their own religion, and calender
- Various types of Weapons
- Various clothing, and hair styles







]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people#General_history

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin

http://www.zyama.com/ife/pics..htm

Great Kingdom of Benin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVIoaTq-5Q
[youtube]rdVIoaTq-5Q[/youtube]



Ife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB4TVq8ek8s
[youtube]EB4TVq8ek8s[/youtube]

Yoruba culture (mostly some of the religious aspects of it)
[youtube]Ei2MAg_IFDA[/youtube]

Nok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVT--v-fAKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hszofiN40I


Please read up on this, and research it. Its important to you ,and your community.

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There are many more!

Great pics. Impressive sculpture.  I 'll  read  some links to know more about dates etc. 

Thanks for posting this, and as Sander mentioned dates would be great to know.