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{{Short description|Oba of Benin (1914 AD–1933 AD)}}

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| reign-type = | coronation = | cor-type = | predecessor = Ovonramwen| pre-type = | successor = Akenzua II| suc-type = | regent = | reg-type =| succession1 = | moretext1 = | reign1 = | reign-type1 = | coronation1 = | cor-type1 = | predecessor1 = | pre-type1 = | successor1 = | suc-type1 = | regent1 = | reg-type1 =| succession2 = | moretext2 = | reign2 = | reign-type2 = | coronation2 = | cor-type2 = | predecessor2 = | pre-type2 = | successor2 = | suc-type2 = | regent2 = | reg-type2 =| succession3 = | moretext3 = | reign3 = | reign-type3 = | coronation3 = | cor-type3 = | predecessor3 = | pre-type3 = | successor3 = | suc-type3 = | regent3 = | reg-type3 =| birth_name = Aiguobasinwin Ovonramwen| birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = February 1933| death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = | spouse = | spouse-type = | consort = | issue = | issue-link = | issue-pipe = | issue-type = | full name = | era name = | era dates = | regnal name = | posthumous name= | temple name = | house = | house-type = | father = | mother =| occupation = | signature_type = | signature =| module = }}Aiguobasinwin Ovonramwen, Eweka II (died February 1933) was the thirty-sixth Oba of Benin, reigning from 1914 to 1933.He was the son of Ovonramwen (ruled 1888–1897), who was deposed by the British and exiled to Calabar following the British punitive expedition in Benin City in 1897. Aiguobasin Ovonramwen worked with the colonial government as a chief from 1902 onwards.JOURNAL, Blackmun, Barbara, 1997, Continuity and Change: The Ivories of Ovonramwen and Eweka II, African Arts, 30, 3, 68–79, 3337502, 10.2307/3337502, Ovonramwen died in January 1914, and Aiguobasinwin Ovonramwen was enthroned as the Oba of Benin on 24 July 1914. He took the name Eweka II after the 13th-century founder of the dynasty and the first Oba of Benin, Eweka I.BOOK,weblink History and Social Anthropology, Bradbury, R. E., Routledge, 2013, 978-1-136-54137-7, White, I. M., en, Pre-colonial and Colonial Benin Politics, Eweka II rebuilt the royal palace, which had been destroyed and looted by the British in 1897. He also reestablished the traditional structure of the kingdom. The royal coral regalia of Ovonramwen seized by the British was returned. Eweka II also restored the craft guilds, commissioned objects to replace those looted by the British, and started the Benin Arts and Crafts School.BOOK,weblink Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ezra, Kate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, 978-0-87099-633-7, en, He died in February 1933.BOOK,weblink Concise Lives of the Famous Iyases of Benin, Egharevba, Jacob U., Kraus Reprint, 1946, en,

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