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Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...
I cooked two traditional dishes from Benin - Kuli-Kuli and Dahomey fish stew - and the flavors were unforgettable. In this ...
The Netherlands has returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell.
After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...
Leaders from the Museum of Fine Arts presented the historic pieces, looted in a 19th century raid, to Nigerian officials in ...
Art World Benin’s Looted Bronzes Are All Over the Western World. Here Are 7 Museums That Hold Over 2,000 of the Famed Sculptures. As talks continue between the UK and Nigeria over Benin Bronzes ...
The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures, were looted in 1897. After a chance encounter, two men made it their mission to return them.
Benin City itself is crying out for archaeological investigation, and for the restoration of the historic city’s ambitious network of walls and moats, now sadly tumbled and garbage-strewn.
A 12-year-old boy, Nathan Spencer, has lost his life after being swept away by floodwaters while on his way to write the Middle Basic Assessment Examination in Benin, a report by the News Agency of ...
Germany returned 20 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria’s government in a ceremony in December. But Nigeria’s outgoing president has now bestowed ownership on a descendant of the ruler of the ancient ...
Called “Everything Precious is Fragile,” Benin’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale will explore the theme of African feminism and features four critically acclaimed contemporary artists ...
The first-ever Benin Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be on display for eight months in Venice, Italy. Beninese artists Romuald Hazoumé, Chloé Quenum, Ishola Akpo, and Moufouli Bello touch ...