The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...

Nigerian historical fantasy OSAMEDE will screen at the 2025 Cannes Film Market on May 17 at the Pavillon Afriques, marking a ...

And in that long and turbulent history, the Benin Bronzes ... A British delegation, seeking to enter Benin City during an important religious ceremony, had been attacked, and some of its members ...

Oral history remembers him as a skilled fighter ... Ewuare rebuilt the capital of the kingdom, Edo City, which is present-day Benin City. A wall was built around the capital and included moats ...

According to Yoruba tradition, the Yorubas trace their origin to Ile-Ife, an ancient city re­garded as ... lead to the forma­tion of the Benin Empire. The history of the Yoruba people begins ...

"With this return, we are contributing to the redress of a historical injustice that is ... to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City in 2026, designed by the British-Ghanaian ...

2022 marks the 125th anniversary of the British Punitive Expedition, which saw thousands of sculptures and cultural artefacts stolen during the destruction of Benin City (in present-day Nigeria).