Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the ...

Fongbe (Fon) is the most widely-spoken local language in Southern Benin but this language is gradually losing its place as a ...

David Kpondehou is an entrepreneur from the Republic of Benin. He is the president and founder of the Africa Diaspora Network ...

A militant attack on an army position has killed six soldiers in northern Benin, where government troops are trying to curb cross-border assaults by armed Islamist groups, an army spokesperson said.

Nigeria's long-running effort to repatriate the Benin Bronzes-some of the most prized artifacts in African history-has taken ...

The return of the Benin Bronzes, looted by British colonial forces in 1897, has become a rallying cry for Nigeria’s cultural restitution movement. Despite promises from Western institutions to return ...

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th ...

The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, nearly 130 years after they were looted by British soldiers and ...

According to the British Museum, they were created from the 1500s onwards in the West African Kingdom of Benin by a specialist guild working for the royal court of the Oba, the King in Benin City.

Benin and coastal neighbor Togo have both suffered attacks in recent years as groups linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda expanded their presence beyond West Africa's central Sahel region to the ...

It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the ...

The Netherlands say over a 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s in museums will ...