The Nation Newspaper Benin royal art at Lagos Museum. Saturday, May 17, 2025 Advertise With Us. News; ... a collection of Edo Batik textiles and wax prints designed and produced by the ...

Between October and November 2019 in Benin, Dr. Princess Theresa Oghogho Iyase-Odozi had a successful solo art exhibition on Benin royal art titled “Uhunmwen Vbe Ehinmwen and Master of The ...

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA — More than a century ago, as European powers competed for Africa’s resources, ancient art treasures from an ancient kingdom were stolen. What was once the ancient Kingdom ...

Print. PARIS — In the 19th century, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a major West African power, ... In 2015, they opened a small museum in Benin that exhibits art donated from their own collections.

Twenty-six works of art seized by French colonial soldiers in 1892 returned to Benin on Wednesday, a landmark in the long fight by African countries to recover looted artifacts.

EDITORIAL At the Museum of Fine Arts, a chance for justice The institution can — and should — send plundered art back to West Africa.

The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC has removed its Benin bronzes from display and is planning to repatriate artifacts that were looted by the British in ...

In June, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that it will be sending three objects back to Nigeria. Two of the works, a pair of 16th-century Benin Court brass plaques of a ...