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"Edo" is the name that the people of the Benin Kingdom give to themselves, their language, and their capital city and kingdom. Renowned for their art of brass and ivory and for their complex political organization, the Edo Kingdom of Benin is one of the best known of the precolonial kingdoms on the Guinea Coast of West Africa. Today it is incorporated into the modern state of Nigeria. Craft guilds include carpenters, carvers, brass casters, leather-workers, blacksmiths, and weavers.
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"edo," the people of the benin kingdom, counties and their cultures, edo, known for their art of brass and ivory and for their complex political organization, basis of the economy is farming, with the main food crops being yams, cassava, plantains, and cocoyams, as well as beans, rice, okra, peppers, and go, carpenters, carvers, brass casters, leatherworkers, blacksmiths, and weavers, the guinea coast of west africa, guinea
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