That history does not detract from the objects ... How many objects would a new West African museum of Benin art wish to display? Thirty? Forty? A hundred? “Surely,” Phillips said ...

The government of Benin, a West African nation of 12 million people ... Burkina Faso,” said Didier Houénoudè, a professor of art history at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin’s main ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently ...

The objects recorded great events in the kingdom’s history, portrayed its ... were collectors of African art (although not of the art of Benin). My family donated the highlights of my parents ...

the Museum of West African Art in Edo State, there is a vital need for the narrative of the restitution of the Benin bronzes to be told from the perspective of Africans, based on the realities on ...

When British forces raided the African kingdom of Benin in the late 19th century ... Edo-centric knowledge, history, and language, including traditional Edo names for the objects and the locations ...

Now, head south over France and into Africa ... And all this, it will be history. This 16th century brass statue shows a soldier. Europeans in Benin art were often shown holding a gun.

The Archives is a unique repository for materials illuminating the history of photography and photographic practices in Africa ... depicting Yorùbá art and culture, Nigerian photographer Solomon ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — In a ceremony Tuesday morning, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art formally ... Museum of Natural History has a collection of 20 Benin bronzes and is also ...

Within a few weeks of her arrival at NMAFA in Washington D.C., Blankenberg launched the process to hand back Benin ... in Africa to rebalance the relationship between African art and knowledge ...