The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the ...

More than five years after two of the school’s first-ever Black students initiated a discussion about returning the work, a Benin Bronze held for more than 100 years at Jesus College in Cambridge, ...

Nigeria’s stunning new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) finds itself in the crosshairs of local power politics.

The Museum of West African Art is poised to give Nigeria an institution of global significance, although its most hyped ...

The Benin bronze: a sculpture depicting the head of an Oba or king. (Image courtesy of University of Aberdeen via Courthouse News) The Benin bronze: a sculpture depicting the head of an Oba or king.

THE sculpture which has been produced by the natives of Western and Central Africa has existed for ages, but its proper appreciation by us can be dated from the turn of this century. Although the’ ...

The British Museum and other UK institutions with Benin bronzes in their collections are facing growing pressure to return them to Africa. Now, the Guardian newspaper has increased the heat by ...

A museum in Britain says it is willing to consider returning a looted artifact to Benin following an appeal from a member of the West African country’s royal court. The sculpture is one of thousands ...

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The University of Aberdeen in Scotland announced its plans to return a stolen African sculpture back to its rightful home in Nigeria. The Bronze statue in question depicts an Oba, or ruler, of the ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced its plans to return two Benin bronze sculptures to Nigeria. The Met is reported to have roughly 160 looted objects from the Court of Benin ...