page_title: Kingdom of Bonny
section_title: Bonny civil war
hierarchical_section_title: Kingdom of Bonny / History / Growing British influence / Bonny civil war
caption_attribution_description: Pirogue de guerre du roi de Bonny, in Côte occidentale d'Afrique&#160;: vues, scènes, croquis, p. 337 Colonel Frey
context_page_description: The Kingdom of Bonny, otherwise known as Grand Bonny, is a traditional state based on the town of Bonny in Rivers State, Nigeria. In the pre-colonial period, it was an important slave trading port, later trading palm oil products.
  During the 19th century the British became increasingly involved in the internal affairs of the kingdom, in 1886 assuming control under a protectorate treaty. Today the King of Bonny has a largely ceremonial role.
context_section_description: Oko Jumbo, who became leader of the Fubara Manilla Pepple house and effective ruler of the kingdom, became engaged in a struggle with the Anne Pepple house, which was led by a chief named Jubo Jubogha, known as Ja-Ja to the British.
  In an attempt to stabilize the situation, the British restored King William Dappa Pepple I in 1861, and for the next five years until his death on 30 September 1866 the kingdom was relatively peaceful.
  King William Dappa was succeeded by his son George Oruigbiji Pepple (born 1849), who had been educated in England.
  George Pepple was a Christian, and on 21 April 1867, supported by Oko Jumbo and other chiefs, he declared the iguana was no longer the sacred deity of the kingdom.
  The tension between the Manilla Pepple and Anne Pepple houses was revived at this time. In 1869 a major battle between the two factions led to Ja-Ja founding a new state at Opobo, further inland, taking some of the palm oil trade away from Bonny.
caption: Royal Canoe of the Kingdom of Bonny, 1890
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