Two children, a little girl and her kid brother, sitting on a carved wooden bench in an Edo courtyard, Benin City, mid 1930s. 2nd Image: The Iyasere of Benin, Iyase Okhoro-Otun. Photographer: Duckworth, E. H., a colonial era photographer for the colonial rule. Courtyard likely of Iyasere Okhoro-Otun In background, the Edo architecture of horizontal wall fluting . An important part of the structure of a building, the horizontal fluting is anchored by supporting vertical wood beams forming the frame of each building. These striations are as well architectural aesthetic specific to Edo. It is not clear how often in the year, given the yearly rains, these walls were repaired. Much knowledge has been lost, especially as local materials have been abandoned for the more durable cement. What is clear is that in the decades that followed the invasion of 1897 and the subsequent propaganda and discrimination Benin suffered at the hands of the colonial rule and its newly forming 'state'...