The London-based curator and writer Aindrea Emelife has been appointed curator of Modern and contemporary art at the long-awaited Edo Museum of West African Art based in Benin City, Nigeria.

one of Nigeria’s 36 federal states. The independent museum project—formally known as the Edo Museum of West African Art—debuted to instant enthusiasm in 2020, heightened by the building ...

In Edo State, the dominant religion is Christianity ... This is not the first time an effort has been organized to return art from Nigeria to Nigerian control. Years before the reckoning of ...

A creative revolution is set to ripple through Nigeria's cultural landscape as the Benin Art Fair 2024 (T-BAF) launches an ambitious bid to revitalise Edo State's rich creative culture and ...

I believe that Nigeria has a strong competitive advantage ... West African Art to emphasise that are scope is not just about Edo art, and this year we organised the Nigeria Pavilion at the Venice ...

When the same media lens momentarily shifts to Nigeria, it does so only to find ... the Museum of West African Art in Edo State, there is a vital need for the narrative of the restitution of ...

The catalogue includes, for the first time, Edo-centric knowledge ... Europe, and Nigeria with an initial €1.2 million from a fine-art foundation in Berlin called Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung.

Photograph from Franko Khoury, National Museum of African Art ... artifacts made by the Edo peoples from the Kingdom of Benin, located in the southwest of present-day Nigeria, the Smithsonian ...