Career
Akenzua II ascended to the position upon the death of his father, Oba Eweka II, who reigned from 1914 and died in 1933. In 1936, Oba Akenzua II began the movement to return to Nigeria the Benin Bronzes stolen in the punitive Benin Expedition of 1897. During his reign, only two of the 3,000 royal court bronzes were returned.