West Africa has been home ... Niger around 500BC. The kingdom of Ife developed in the rainforest in the 600s. Its art and religion influenced the culture of Benin, which began in the 900s and ...

Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can ...

A new law in Benin gives citizenship to people who can prove their ancestors were sent from Sub-Saharan Africa during the ...

When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin ... It originated in the kingdom of Dahomey in the south of present-day Benin and revolves around the worship of spirits and ...

The Bronzes, thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings, were seized from the West African kingdom of Benin - in what is today Edo State in southern Nigeria - by a British military force in ...

It is one of thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings made between the 15th and 19th Centuries and looted by British troops in 1897 from the West African kingdom of Benin, in modern day ...

The film premiered in Benin and Senegal before its release ... "Dahomey" chronicles the return of 26 artworks looted from the West African Kingdom of Dahomey by French colonizers during the ...

DAKAR, Senegal — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel agent ...

He had never been to West Africa before ... It originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — in the south of present-day Benin — and revolves around the worship of spirits and ancestors through ...