Emeka Esogbue

 Obaseki: How a Nsukwa Family of Anioma Ruled Benin Empire as an Oba - Emeka Esogbue The Obaseki family of Benin is indeed of Anioma ancestry from Nsukwa Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State. Other communities lying close to Nsukwa are Umute, Aba Ukwu, Adonte, and Ejeme Aniogor. According to J. P. Nkem Onyekpe, "Nsukwa" is an Anglicization of Nchukwa. Since its foundation, Benin and Anioma communities have enjoyed relations in the form of trade, marriage, diplomacy, and wars but these particular Benin-Nsukwa relations are a relationship that defines cultural association. As was the cultural practice within the period under discussion, Agho who was the Crown Prince to the throne of Nsukwa Kingdom was sent to Benin for training on administration and he struck a friendship with Overamwen Nogbaisi, the other Crown Prince to Benin Kingdom. With time, Overamwen ascended the throne as the Oba of Benin and conferred the title of Obaseki of Beni...

  CALABAR OR IKOT ABASI: WHERE WAS OBA OVONRAMWEN NOGBAISI OF BENIN EXILED? 124 YEARS AFTER HISTORIANS CANNOT TELL THE PLACE OF EXILE OF OBA OVONRAMWEN By Emeka Esogbue “Emeka Esogbue, of course, you are aware that majorly, Nigerian historians are theorists and not research-oriented.” -        Olaniyi Johnson Nigerian students of history are still debating the actual particular place of exile of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. In the year 1897, His Royal Majesty Oba Ovonramwem Nogbaisi, the 38 th Oba of Benin was exiled to the defunct Eastern part of what later became Nigeria but 124 years after his death, arguments over the actual community is still hotly debated. Although the British had after the sad incident recorded that Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi was exiled to Calabar in present day Cross-River State, a historical information that has stuck in historical documents, indigenes of the area insist that he was rather exiled to Ikot Abasi which is fou...