Nigeria’s stunning new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) finds itself in the crosshairs of local power politics.

The MOWAA opening is delayed thanks to protesters crashing a preview event of the highly anticipated Museum of West African ...

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

The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the ...

Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a fire and pour a thick golden liquid into a partly buried mould, using a centuries-old technique that still ...

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew Goldstein ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 Rhode Island School of Design Museum returned a Nigerian bronze sculpture, “Head of a King (Oba),” to the Nigerian National Collections Oct. 11. The sculpture had been held by the museum since ...

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 ...