African Ceremonies: photography by Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher

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Oba of Benin and his court at Igue Festival, Benin City, Nigeria

Oba Erediauwa of Benin sits in state surrounded by chiefs and royal courtiers. He was educated in both Nigeria and England before he was crowned as the thirty-ninth traditional head of state of the Benin kingdom in 1979. In 2016 the Oba joined his ancestors.

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