Archaeological excavation in Benin City, Nigeria, ahead of the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has ...

From November 10 to 15, Cotonou will become the capital of Africa’s Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI). The Francophone Africa Music Industry Fair (SIMA) will bring together for six days the most ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, said David Drake, the artist, had been “deprived of his creations involuntarily and without ...

For now, Tate has given Nigeria’s cultural moment a museum-scale frame — and committed to keeping part of that story on the walls for decades. If the promise of Zaria and the reinventions of Nsukka ...

Opinion - One of MOWAA's crown achievements is its Institute, the largest and most advanced centre for collections, archives, and archaeological sciences in West Africa.

In an era of fiscal scrutiny, cultural investments like MOWAA deserve celebration, not suspicion. They yield intangible yet ...

With exhibitions featuring copper-wire sculptures, burned canvases, ghostly nighttime paintings and more, here are the people ...

Senegal has its acclaimed Saint-Louis Jazz Festival and Dak’Art Biennale, Burkina Faso’s mammoth film festival, FESPACO, while Benin’s return to ancestral art and Cote d’Ivoire’s resurgent nightlife ...

Long seen as the poor relation of the international art world, modern African art has undergone a massive surge in prestige and commercial interest over the past two decades. The realisation that ...

This expansive exhibition at Tate Modern brings together over 50 artists who transformed Nigeria’s cultural landscape over ...