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A Glimpse of History in Benin City

In some ways, Benin City is like dozens of other fast-growing cities in Nigeria. Buoyed by burgeoning industrial and agricultural sectors, the city’s population rose by 1.7 million people over the past four decades as its footprint on the West African landscape expanded several times over. Amid bustling new networks of roads, residential neighborhoods, markets, and workshops, lie signs of a much earlier…