Renowned visual artist, Osa Seven, solo exhibition, 1897: An Urban Contemporary Representation of Historic Benin Art, which is holding at the Muhcab Museum of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture in Rio ...

Museums have a contentious history for Africa as vehicles of colonial pride, and as spaces enabling the othering of cultures ...

In 1897 most of Benin City, then the capital of an extensive kingdom, was razed by the British. Their trove of looted plaques ...

Since January 2024, an editorial committee comprised of members of the office of the presidency and three ministries has tightly controlled the information broadcast on public television. News reports ...

The ten-day event aims to reclaim Edo State’s prominence in the contemporary art discourse within Nigeria and across Africa.

Benin Bronzes at the British Museum ... Thus, the ethnographic museums can themselves be transformed. Culture has, after all, always relied on exchange; that one can view art from around the world in ...

Monday Okpebholo, governor of Edo, has granted Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, full ownership rights over the returned stolen artefacts.

The Palace urged the public to disregard any group claiming to promote Benin culture without proper authorization. “Such acts ...

The Palace of Oba of Benin has distanced itself from a planned dramatization of the Igue Festival by the Association for ...

She became the first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of Benin when Esigie conferred upon her the title and ... was adopted as the symbol ...

The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) continues building its physical campus. Soon, its mission of preserving, highlighting, ...