The Guardian Newspaper of the United Kingdom in a recent feature on the story of cities, wrote of Europeans’ perception of Benin City and called it the “Great City of Benin” at a time when there was hardly any other place in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as “one of the most beautiful and best-planned cities in the world”.
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