page_title: Ovonramwen
section_title: Exile
hierarchical_section_title: Ovonramwen / Exile
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ovǫnramwęn Nǫgbaisi sur le chemin de l'exil à Calabar. Sculpture exposée au Musée des Civilisations Noires de Dakar This is an image with the theme "Africa on the Move or Transport" from: Senegal
context_page_description: Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, also called Overami, was the Ọba of the Kingdom of Benin up until the British punitive expedition of 1897.
  Born in circa 1857, he was the son of Ọba Adọlọ. He took the name Ovọnramwẹn Nọgbaisi at his enthronement in 1888. Every Ọba took a new name at his coronation, Ovọnramwẹn meaning "The Rising Sun" and Nọgbaisi meaning "which spreads over all".
  At the end of the 19th century, the Kingdom of Benin had managed to retain its independence and the Ọba exercised a monopoly over trade which the British found irksome. The territory was coveted by an influential group of investors for its rich natural resources such as palm-oil, rubber and ivory. The kingdom was largely independent of British control, and pressure continued from figures such as Vice-Consul James Robert Phillips and Captain Gallwey who were pushing for British annexation of the Benin Empire and the removal of the Ọba.
context_section_description: Ovonramwen was exiled to Calabar with two of his wives, Queen Egbe and Queen Aighobahi.
  He was received and hosted in Calabar in a small town called “Essien Town” by Etinyin Essien Etim Offiong, the progenitor of Essien Town.
  He died in Calabar around the turn of the new year in 1914. Ovọnramwẹn was eventually buried in the grounds of the royal palace in Benin City.  He was succeeded by his first son and legitimate heir, Prince Aguobasimwin, who ruled as Eweka II.
caption: Sculpture of Ovonramwen being exiled, Museum of Black Civilisations, Dakar
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