Ikpotoki
Ikpotoki
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Ikpotoki means ‘Portuguese’ in Edo. Benin oral traditions claim that a man called Ogbeide, nicknamed Okhuaihe and deified in Benin during the reign of Ọba Ewuare, used divination to attract Europeans to visit the kingdom.

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