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(from the article `Ile-Ife`) In the centre of modern Ile-Ife is the Afin (`palace`) of the present oni, the spiritual head of the Yoruba people, who has custody of the sacred ... ...high towers topped with bronze birds. Benin City was burned by the British in 1897. The Yoruba of western Nigeria are also an urban people. Their ...