What was meant to be a celebratory moment for Nigeria’s art scene has instead highlighted present tension and past trauma ...

Repatriation negotiations between the two nations have been taking place over the past year. Henriette Reker (right), Lord Mayor of Cologne, symbolically hands over a bronze key from the Kingdom of ...

It took more than a century but they are finally home. The Netherlands have returned 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, nearly 130 years after they were looted by British colonial troops. This shipment is ...

The opening of the multi-million-dollar Museum of West African Arts has been delayed due to protests. Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the highly anticipated Museum of West African Arts in Benin City ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Netherlands on Thursday returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell. The artifacts, known as the Benin ...

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

More than a century after being looted from Nigeria, a set of Benin bronzes are going home. The Benin bronzes — beautiful pieces of art and brutal testimonies of colonial history — are a collection of ...

A British colonial expedition looted vast quantities of treasures in 1897 from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin. Germany and Nigeria on Friday signed an agreement paving the way for the return ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) recently announced the closure of its Benin Kingdom Gallery and the return of two bronzes from its collection to the emperor of Benin, the Oba, in Nigeria. This ...

He has five wives, a $500,000 Rolls Royce — and is trying to get back $30 billion in artworks stolen from his ancestors 135 years ago, including some of the Met Museum’s most precious works. Oba ...

LONDON — After years of ignored pleas and stonewalled requests, deals were finally coming together to return some of Africa’s most prized treasures to the continent. The Smithsonian Institution, the ...