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Oba of Benin
The Oba of Benin, whose person was sacred, controlled the Benin Empire, an empire surrounding the West African city of Benin (now in Nigeria), from 1170 until 1897. In 1897, the British 'Punitive Expedition' destroyed the city of Benin and exiled Oba Ovoranmwen, taking control of the area in order to establish the British colony of Nigeria.
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