Benin Games & Sports by Jacob U. Egharevba

Benin Games & Sports by Jacob U. Egharevba
Central Press, Ltd., Sapele, Nigeria, 1951 (2nd ed.)
Ian Brinkworth Collection
EEPA 2008-009-0591
Jacob U. Egharevba, a local writer, historian, and curator of the Benin Native Administration Museum in the late 1940s, authored this booklet of Benin games and sports. It contains a compendium of children’s games, songs, sports, and wrestling matches based on oral histories and historical events in the Benin kingdom.