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

In 2018, France announced it would return 26 works looted from Benin, fulfilling the promise in November 2021 at the request ...

"They must be entrusted to the descendants of the enslaved," not returned unconditionally to Nigeria, writes one stakeholder.

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The collector who owned them took them back instead. By Colin Moynihan and Tom ...

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

With Netflix and Amazon cooling on content investments in the region, African filmmakers are forging new models of ...

Finland has repatriated a ceremonial stool looted by French forces from the Kingdom of Dahomey over a century ago, marking a ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will return to Robert Owen Lehman twenty- seven Benin artefacts while keeping five of the ...

For more than a decade, a collection of masterful works from the West African Kingdom of Benin have held pride of place at the Museum of Fine Arts, in a dedicated gallery just off the museum’s ...

Benin on Tuesday received from a Finnish museum a sacred "katakle" three-legged stool, symbol of the African nation's ...

Sotheby’s has postponed its sale of gems linked to the remains of the Buddha, in a case that has sparked legal and moral ...