EDITOR’S NOTE

Welcome to BINICity N'Imose magazine. It is with great pleasure and honour that I write you this first letter to introduce our first issue. It's a first of its kind filled with a wealth of articles and photos for your perusal. It features amazing buildings dating from ancient to modern times. It also has a selection of Benin art works to look upon. We aim to inform, inspire and entertain our readers with rich photographs and articles inspired by edo heritage. Meeting and interviewing beautiful and talented Idia Asien was a privilege as well as an exciting moment.

Its been a roller coaster putting up this first issue and I'm so grateful for its success. Nonetheless, while we strive towards recurring readers, we look forward to creating a community of heritage hearts through an audience for this magazine. We intend to publish only four amazing and evocative issues yearly. I truly hope you enjoy this first issue and you're well informed, inspired and entertained by its content.

Princess Susan Elema

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

The folklores of unlettered folk are the 'mystic chords of memory' which keep their histories alive.