The British Museum and other UK institutions with Benin bronzes in their collections are facing growing pressure to return them to Africa. Now, the Guardian newspaper has increased the heat by ...

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

Most of the art of Africa before this century has been lost because of its fragile materials, such as wood and textiles. But from the West African kingdom of Benin comes one of the world’s great ...

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The Denver Art Museum has formally removed a looted Benin plaque from its collection — the first step toward repatriating a prized relic that the British plundered in West Africa more than a century ...

Between October and November 2019 in Benin, Dr. Princess Theresa Oghogho Iyase-Odozi had a successful solo art exhibition on Benin royal art titled “Uhunmwen Vbe Ehinmwen and Master of The Circled ...

For the first time in its history, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will travel an exhibition to the continent of Africa. “Chief S.O. Alonge: Photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, ...

British troops in 1897 mounted a violent, retaliatory raid on the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria, looting and burning the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile. The ...

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. Guilds were groups of craft workers like wood carvers, ivory carvers, leather workers, weavers and blacksmiths. Brass ...

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