They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

A tour guide, right, explained to Jaimie Lyne, a tourist from the Caribbean, about a slave statue in Ouidah, Benin, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelries repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on ...

The Benin Bronzes - thousands of brass, bronze and ivory sculptures and carvings - have become highly charged symbols of injustice. They are originally from what is now Edo State, in southern Nigeria.

Not far from the statue is a massive construction site ... Talon is also building the International Vodun Museum in Porto-Novo, Benin’s capital, where Hazoumè keeps a second home.

Benin's Ouidah has celebrated its annual Voodoo Festival which has made the town a mecca for Voodoo worshippers as well as a tourist attraction.