Relooted is a heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from the Western countries that stole them, developed by ...

A 17 century brass head of a ruler, or oba, from the empire ... the African diaspora. Here, as elsewhere, a major question surrounds the Benin Bronzes, the name used for a wide variety of ...

The British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London are returning looted gold and silver artifacts to Ghana ... 16th century onwards in the West African kingdom of Benin.

I'm sitting in the courtyard of a mud-walled compound in a village in central Mali, 40 miles east ... skyrocketing prices for West African art and artifacts, along with the emergence of ...

Les Amazones d’Afrique began in 2017 as a sisterly supergroup of singers from the West African region of Mali. Founded by Mamani ... protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey (in present ...

when the United Kingdom left the European Union, because the economic impact will be dramatic. "Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger depend on imports and consumer goods from West African ports such as ...

They're part of West African culture — and part of the ... It emerged in the 13th century as a coastal province within the kingdom of Mali. But when Mali fell a few hundred years later, Kaabu ...

"Dahomey" chronicles the return of 26 artworks looted from the West African Kingdom of Dahomey by French ... French troops took over 7,000 artifacts. In November 2021, French President Emmanuel ...

The bronzes are a small part of the 3,000 to 5,000 artifacts stolen from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 ... political and commercial influence in West Africa. In June, the Smithsonian’s Board ...

It was last updated on 28 July 2023 Once home to several pre-colonial empires, the landlocked, arid West ... of North Africa and subsequent spread of Islam. c.1226-1670 - Mali Empire becomes ...