About

Mabel Osaruemwinnomwan Oviahon assists the content production and bibliographical reference for Itan Edo. Her extensive knowledge of Benin history and culture makes it possible to locate non-digitised texts in libraries in Benin City, particularly the Institute for Benin Studies, where she is a research assistant with a special interest in historical Benin objects, funeral songs and oral traditions. She collaborates in the establishment of an extensive bibliography brought together by Osaisonor Godfrey Ekhator-Obogie and on the documentation of oral traditions in Benin City.

Mabel Osaruemwinnomwan Oviahon is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Benin Studies. She is a Research Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Africa, Nigeria (IFRA-NIGERIA). Her research interests are Cultural History in general and Benin Art History in particular. She worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Benin Studies until 2021. She is a graduate in the Department of History and international Studies, University of Benin, where she obtained her B.A in History. Some of her projects includes; collecting and documenting funeral songs by the Benin people of southern Nigeria as part of an Institute for Benin Studies and IFRA-Nigeria collaborative project on digitalization. The Benin Ukhurhe (ancestral staff) and it significance, and currently she is documenting objects in the Benin royal regalia, in partial fulfilment to obtaining a Masters degree in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Benin.