10 Great Quotes of African Heroes - Great Benin Kingdom
10 Great Quotes Of African Heros - The Great Benin Kingdom. West Africa
By Uwagboe Ogieva
20 May 2015
(1) "What more profit a man if having all the wealth in the world but loose his quality and value as a human being"
- Oba godo (First Ogiso of the Benin Kingdom (Igodomigodo 40 BCE – 16 AD)
(2) - "Uhun ekpen ighi wi ye oha" - The head of the leopard does not get lost in the forest"
- Ogiso Owodo - (Father of Ekaladerhan Izoduwa of the Great Benin Kingdom of West Africa - 1059-1100 CE)
(3) "They who have seen only a little, vociferate about how much they experienced, while they who have seen a great deal cannot even find words to express what they have gone through"
- Emperor Ewuare Nogidigan - 1440 - 1473 - Great Benin Kingdom of West Africa )
(4) “Oya aya sinmwin evbo omwan” – in depth of courage and challenge you save your land”
– (Idia – Niye Esigie – - 1450 – 1530 CE - First Army Commander, wife of Oba Ozolua Ni baromi and Mother of Oba Esigie)
(5) "Behind a great King is a great woman"
- (Oba Esigie - 1504 - 1550 - Benin Kingdom of West Africa)
(6) "The greatness of a man is not measured by his size, from his feet to his head but from his head to the sky and how he defeat his adversity from within him"
- Ovonramen Nogbaisi (1888 - 1914 - Great Benin Kingdom of West Africa)
(7) " I will rather die than be a slave"
- (Ologbosere - Great Benin Army Commander 1897)
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