New fronts have opened up in the war of cultural restitution, raising complex ethical and legal questions as some argue ...

Benin Bronzes at the British Museum ... Adam Kuper calls “the museum of other people.” In an expansive new book by that title, Kuper retraces the making, undoing, and renewal of the West ...

The kingdom was, and still is, a centre of art and craft, from appliqué designers to bronze artisans and weavers. Last January, on an exploratory trip to Benin, Barthélemy – whose projects ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Nate Debos, known by his stage name NaTRILL Dizaster, who said he ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...

International Monetary Fund. African Dept. "Benin: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2024, 339 (2024), accessed December 15, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5089 ...

His art practice is deeply spiritual, rooted in the indigenous motifs of Edo culture—the cradle of the Benin Bronzes. Yet it goes further, challenging Western constructs that have long contained ...

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has described the restoration of his full statutory rights by Governor Monday Okpebholo as ‘devastating on our detractors’. DAILY POST reports that the Oba ...

The museum houses over 900 elaborately decorated brass and bronze sculptures and plaques from the West African Kingdom of Benin dating as far back as the 16th century. Commemorative heads ...

In 2022, for example, Germany and Nigeria signed an agreement paving the way for the return of hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes taken from Africa by a British colonial expedition ...

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