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 Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the ...
The Horniman Museum and Gardens announced Sunday that it had agreed to return Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria. Pictured here: A brass plaque depicts a war chief ...
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 University of Aberdeen in Scotland announced its plans to return a stolen African sculpture back to its rightful home in Nigeria. The Bronze statue in question depicts an Oba, or ruler, of the ...
The Museum of West African Art is poised to give Nigeria an institution of global significance, although its most hyped attractions won’t be there.
The Edo capital, Benin City, has been renowned for centuries as the heart of bronze and brass craftsmanship. Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a ...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Nigeria on Friday signed an agreement paving the way for the return of hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes that were taken from Africa more than 120 years ago — ...
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 ...
A popular classic play "Dance of the Forests" by Noble Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has inspired the first edition of ...
LONDON — A museum in southeast London agreed Sunday to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come ...