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148 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett
Plan of Benin City (Pl. XIV)
Under these OGIES are many villages ruled over by headmen equivalent to the
KONGOZOVO in the Kongo. These74 headmen have a number of families under them,
each of which have land given to them for planting. There may be waste land in a
province or a kingdom, but that is not to, say that it is no man's land for it belongs either
to the OGIE, or the OBA.
74 The poorer people who could not afford to bury their dead in houses threw their bodies on to this road, so
that with-these and the bodies of people sacrificed it really had an awful appearance
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