Other articles where oba is discussed: African dance: The social context: At the crowning of an oba (king) in Yorubaland, for example, the ruler leads a procession through the town as he dances with upright carriage and dignified step, his gestures dicta
The kingdom of Benin, situated in the Yorubaland forest in present-day southwestern Nigeria, reached its zenith in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries under the reigns of the oba (king) Ewuare (rc 1440–1473), his son Ozolua (rc 1481–1504), and his grandson Esigie (rLN Sandomirsky...
Benin Oba and Queen Mother commemorative heads This page is for educational purposes only. I do not have any Benin items in my collection. Queen Mother heads click image to see larger version
has had its fair share of challenges. Before modern challenges of United Kingdom’s (UK) Brexit from 2016 to 2020- which is now obviously not beneficial, there was ‘Empty Chair Crisis’ of 1965, when President Charles de Gaulle of France prevented initial...
Photographic Representations of the Oba in the Contemporary Art of the Benin Kingdom: Critical Interventions: Vol 9, No 3The paper focuses on the ways in which photography as a medium is situated in different social contexts in Benin City, in southern Nigeria. It suggests that photography is ...
Photographic Representations of the Oba in the Contemporary Art of the Benin KingdomClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizedoi:10.1080/19301944.2016.1159474JosephNevadomskyCritical Interventions
Some of the bronze artifacts, such as Head of an Oba (cover), were cast images of the rulers, or Obas, of the Kingdom of Benin. They are assumed to be stylized representations of the power and authority of the 鈥doi:10.1001/jama.2011.374Thomas B. Cole...
Sophistication of the castings; Art portrays the tribe's famous ancestors and alludes to events that have contributed to the kingdom's power, wealth and spiritual greatness; Whites call it primitive art.EBSCO_AspEconomist