On Esien Edo (BENIN PEPPER) and co. APROPOS: OUR NOTE on the excerpts/article below: Considering that cultural, every day items such as the ‘ ‘Benin Cloth’ 'Benin Soap' are of great interest to us, the excerpt below on ’BENIN PEPPER’, which we found from searching after an image, was right along things dear to this blog. The question in these findings is often that of loss as specific knowledge industry has either been lost or shrugged off by the people themselves, either from the conveniences and exploitative caprices of the particular style of consumer modernity that fell upon emerging African nations ( and from which they were formed ) or, in this context of the Benins, the weight of overwhelming propaganda against which the kingdom and its founding ethnic tribe has had to deal. Regarding the propaganda itself, it was a relief too to find an actual mention of the royal courtly coral beads as an actual expor t item of the day. This has always been the oral history as we kn