The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the west African nation said late on Monday. Benin authorities fear that the ...

What was meant to be a celebratory moment for Nigeria’s art scene has instead highlighted present tension and past trauma ...

On Nov. 28, 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron made strides in the African art restitution movement. Macron spoke at the University of Ouagadougou in West Africa and directly addressed the history ...

Nigeria's government has received two Benin bronzes repatriated from a US museum, marking a milestone in its effort to reclaim its looted cultural heritage ...

Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a fire and pour a thick golden liquid into a partly buried mould, using a centuries-old technique that still ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) recently announced the closure of its Benin Kingdom Gallery and the return of two bronzes from its collection to the emperor of Benin, the Oba, in Nigeria. This ...

The Gun That Shoots Twice -- A Theory of Taking -- Necrography -- White Projection -- World War Zero -- Corporate-Militarist Colonialism -- War on Terror -- The Benin ...

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum. Thousands of these culturally ...

Preface: Relatives behind bars -- The closer one gets to Benin, the farther away it is -- Easily as big as the town of Haarlem and enclosed by a remarkable wall -- The white men, greater than me and ...