Then he orders some tame leopards that he keeps, to be led about the city in chains. Benin belonged to the British Empire until 1960. Then it became part of the independent country of Nigeria.

The Kanem-Borno Empire, located in what is ... the Yoruba empires of Ife and Oyo, the Benin Kingdom, the Ibibio-Efik Kingdom, and the Ijaw city-states of Nembe, Bonny, and Okrika.