"Every square meter in Benin City has an artist," Victor Ehikhamenor said with a laugh. He was talking about the capital of Edo, the Nigerian State, which is famed as a historical, cultural and ...

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 largest collection of looted goods from the former kingdom resides in the UK, yet the British government is more reluctant than other countries to return the treasures to their rightful place.

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 ...

The forthcoming Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, is sitting atop a treasure trove of cultural heritage. Valuable archaeological remains from the former Kingdom of Benin ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The red rammed-earth walls of the new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) in Benin City, southern Nigeria, echo ...

It was theft. There is no question about that. In 1897, British forces launched a “punitive expedition” against the Benin kingdom in what is now southern Nigeria. Bent on avenging the ambush and ...

This singular executive act has several implications for restituting these copper-alloy art masterpieces forcefully removed from present-day Edo State, Nigeria. The Cambridge, UK, Museum of ...

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 ...