In Benin, a 'kataklè' - a ceremonial stool, and the final piece of the royal treasure of Abomey - has been returned by ...

In 2006, after decades of resistance, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York agreed to return ... looks like should ultimately be up to the Benin Kingdom, which still exists today as a ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artifact before gently ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently ...

The kataklè is a three-legged royal chair from Dahomey, a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed ... delving into texts on Beninese art and the restitution of works ...

In 2018, France announced it would return 26 works looted from Benin, fulfilling the promise in November 2021 at the request ...

With Netflix and Amazon cooling on content investments in the region, African filmmakers are forging new models of ...

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...