In November 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey plundered by French colonialists in 1892 were returned to Benin, the west African nation that now encompasses Dahomey that gained its ...

“The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction,” filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey. The ...

In November 2021, 61 years after Benin gained independence from the French empire, 26 of the many thousands of plundered national antiquities were returned by France to their African home. Inserting ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. Commemorative head, 16th–17th century.

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The transfer was coordinated and facilitated by Dr. Arese Carrington, a member of ...

The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their African land of origin There is not much time left to view the masterful and ...