"Every square meter in Benin City has an artist," Victor Ehikhamenor said with a laugh. He was talking about the capital of Edo, the Nigerian State, which is famed as a historical, cultural and ...

Amadi While Nigerians marked 66 years of independence on October 1, an older Nigerian story was being told in the Portuguese ...

Long before the tragic looting of 1897 defined its image in the West, the Benin Kingdom negotiated with Europe from a position of absolute strength. A new exhibition at Lisbon's Ndikama Museum rewinds ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return three artworks, including two Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria, accelerating a fast-moving development to repatriate the nation’s treasures, which were looted by ...

Beninese president Patrice Talon (right) attends the opening of “Benin Art from Yesterday to Today, from Restitution to Revelation” at the Palais de la Marin last month. LAST MONTH, when Benin’s ...

Benin’s new Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has delayed its opening following protests at a preview event. Demonstrators linked to the Oba’s palace opposed the museum’s authority over Benin’s ...

The Benin Kingdom, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the end of the nineteenth century, produced a corpus of artworks remarkable for their artistry and technical virtuosity. Benin art ...

The largest collection of looted goods from the former kingdom resides in the UK, yet the British government is more reluctant than other countries to return the treasures to their rightful place.

Installation view of 56 Benin bronze plaques in the Africa Galleries at the British Museum in London this year. (photo by Olivia McEwan) In the latest effort to repatriate the Benin Bronzes, thousands ...

Artist's rendering of the Edo Museum of West African Art's exterior Adjaye Associates In January 1897, British troops attacked the Kingdom of Benin’s capital in what is now southern Nigeria, exiling ...