Keeper or Traitor ?

A Charge Older Than Nigeria Itself For more than a century, one name in Benin history has carried a single verdict: traitor. When British forces burned Benin City in 1897 and sent Oba Ovonramwen into exile, Chief Agho Obaseki rose to run the kingdom under the new rulers. Was that betrayal, an attempt to seize the throne, or survival under occupation? Most accounts only ever argue one side. What This Book Helps You Understand Keeper or Traitor weighs the evidence instead of choosing a side. It reconstructs the years from 1888 to 1920 in plain language: the kingdom Ovonramwen inherited, the massacre and the punitive expedition, the trial and the exile, the long interregnum, the disputed Iyase title, and the question of whether Agho ever reached for the crown. Each major claim is graded as Verified, Supported, Plausible, or Contradicted, so you can see exactly what the record supports and where it runs out.