Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way ...

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

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. The move represents “the return of ...

Mayo Moran is the Irving and Rosalie Abella Chair in Justice and Equality at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. Her ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) will take charge of retrieving and preserving the Benin Bronzes, with the approval of the Oba of Benin, the rightful owner of the ...

Ethiopia has welcomed the return as part of a broader push to repatriate items of national significance.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The red rammed-earth walls of the new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) in Benin City, southern Nigeria, echo ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, has revealed that 16 gold-plated beaded crowns were stolen from the palace during the British invasion of Oyo in November 1895, describing the missing artefacts ...