Edo legend says that no one in Benin had ever seen a horse before Oranmiyan arrived! In the 1100s the Ogisos lost control of their kingdom. The King of Ife sent his son Prince Oranmiyan to bring ...

The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living ...

“Dahomey,” a formally inventive documentary, traces the journey across continents of 26 artworks looted from the West African ...

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Edo people of the Kingdom of Benin, which controlled territory on the west coast of Africa that is now part of Nigeria, produced thousands of ...

During this meeting, the Speaker of the House of Representatives informed his Benin’s peer of King Mohammed VI’s Atlantic Initiative aiming to promote Sahel countries’ access to the Atlantic Ocean, as ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...

The Benin Monarch, Omo N’oba N’edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II, has received two artefacts from the Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, in the United States. These artefacts—a wooden ...

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to director Mati Diop about her new documentary, "Dahomey." The film follows the return of royal treasures plundered by French forces.

As the name suggests, it is a social anthropological museum dedicated to the study and preservation of objects from all over ...

Opening of the Museum of West African Art Institute in the Nigerian city will include a live archaeological dig ...

He said the King’s relentless efforts and exploration of international networks to return priceless and timeless artefacts, which carry the weight of the Benin Kingdom’s history, identity ...