Some of the objects in Lehman's collection were stolen during a notoriously violent 1897 raid on Benin City in present-day Nigeria, during which British troops sacked the African empire's royal ...

West Africa has been home to several powerful kingdoms from the earlier Sahelian kingdoms (Ghana Empire, Mali Empire and ...

New Delhi’s Ministry of Culture said the auction of the Piprahwa gems in Hong Kong, scheduled for Wednesday, “violates Indian ...

Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more.

Portugal's voyages of discovery turned the nation into a trading empire ... works of art from this period were created for export (a 16th-century ivory saltcellar from the Benin Kingdom of ...

Finland has returned a ceremonial stool that was looted from what is now Benin by French forces more than a century ago, a ...

The mother-and-son duo have made art their life’s work, and where their tastes converge, trouble ensues. As our photographer asks the pair to pose at Ben’s house in London’s Notting Hill ...

The katakle was looted in 1892 from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Dahomey, now modern-day Benin, by French colonial ...

In the heart of Benin's capital, a monk, ordained at China's legendary Shaolin Temple, has turned a tranquil courtyard into a martial arts hub. Degbo Agossou Damien leads daily sessions in Kung Fu, ...