The British Museum has a “terrible colonial past”, according to Dame Tracey Emin. The artist, who is one of the museum’s trustees, said the institution must become a better place and more suited to ...

Britain’s Left is turning monarchist. Most of the progressives silting up our universities would still heartily proclaim ...

ADC's National Working Committee member and lawyer, Kenneth Okonkwo, alleges assassination attempt on party leaders is ...

Benin City, former capital of the ancient Benin Kingdom and present capital of Edo State, is home to many sacred places, historical monuments and things that will pass as folkores and fairy tales.

Swiss palaeontologist Jacques Ayer has been appointed by the government of Benin as managing director of four new public museums that will showcase Beninese art, culture and history.

It’s a project of mass violence, part of which involves total erasure and the widespread theft of some of the most culturally significant artifacts in the world. Even today, colonizing nations proudly ...

Things came to a head in November, when protesters stormed a glitzy preview event for officials and foreign guests. The intruders, echoing the oba, demanded that the museum be suspended pending an ...

Cambridge museum to return 116 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria Artifacts looted by British troops in 1897 European nations accelerate restitution of colonial-era African artifacts The Museum of Archaeology ...

As European museums return looted Benin Bronzes, the centuries-old craft that produced some of Africa's finest and most significant heritage objects is struggling to survive in the Nigerian city where ...

Ownership of more than 100 artefacts stolen by the British military from Africa in the late 19th Century and housed at the University of Cambridge has been officially transferred to Nigeria. The ...