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 ...

Oba of Benin Kingdom. “In light of the above, we want to humbly appeal to His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Monday ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The youngest son of a village leader, Equiano was born among the Ibo people in the kingdom of Benin, along the Niger River. He was "the greatest favourite with [his] mother." His family expected ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the heart of Benin City, the Museum of West African Arts , MOWAA, is rising as a cultural beacon, reclaiming the ancient ...

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