Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way off. Nkechi Adedeji, Olugbile Holloway and Tunji Busari examining a ...

The Netherlands and the MFA Boston both recently returned looted Benin artifacts. Who they returned them to differed. The Head of a the king Oba of Benin is displayed at the signing ceremony and ...

Nigeria's stolen cultural heritage is slowly coming back home. On Monday, Swiss authorities returned 18 artefacts looted during the colonial era to Nigeria in a ceremony at the National Museum in ...

Leaders at the Museum of Fine Arts were in New York Friday to return a pair of disputed artworks looted during a notorious 19th-century British raid on the Benin kingdom, in present-day Nigeria.

Preface: Relatives behind bars -- The closer one gets to Benin, the farther away it is -- Easily as big as the town of Haarlem and enclosed by a remarkable wall -- The white men, greater than me and ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) recently announced the closure of its Benin Kingdom Gallery and the return of two bronzes from its collection to the emperor of Benin, the Oba, in Nigeria. This ...

AFA copy 39088019762335 gift from Janet Stanley. "Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit.

This week, Switzerland returned 23 artifacts including carved tusks, commemorative heads, and ornate staffs to Nigeria. Eighteen of these antiquities were Benin Bronzes formerly held by three Swiss ...