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

Benin City underwent its most extensive archaeological dig to date in the lead up to the opening of MOWAA (Museum of West ...

British troops in 1897 mounted a violent, retaliatory raid on the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria, looting and burning the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile. The ...

The plaques, produced in what is now Nigeria, were looted during the British military occupation and have been in museums and a private collection... Beautiful bronze sculptures and castings from West ...

The Denver Art Museum has formally removed a looted Benin plaque from its collection — the first step toward repatriating a prized relic that the British plundered in West Africa more than a century ...

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, ...

Two universities became the first institutions in the U.K. to restitute Benin bronzes to Nigeria this week. Jesus College at the University of Cambridge and the University of Aberdeen each staged ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A highly anticipated database of the Benin Bronzes, a massive trove of art and cultural artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Benin by the British empire in 1897, launched Friday. The ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Victor Ehikhamenor describes his childhood in Benin City, Nigeria, as magical. “My grandfather was a big ...

Beautiful bronze sculptures and castings from West Africa have long been exhibited in some of the world's most august institutions, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday it's ...