Lagos has long been Nigeria’s creative pulse, an electrifying, sprawling city home to some of the most exciting and well-regarded fashion, music and artistic talents of recent years. But an hour’s ...

When a Benin City boy like Nigerian Afrobeats sensation Rema rises to global stardom, selling out international shows and recording the first song led by an African-artist to surpass a billion ...

A new museum in the historic heart of Benin City in Nigeria is opening its first building on 4 November. The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) Institute, designed by Adjaye Associates ...

THE real interest in the finding of the Benin bronze castings centres in the fact that a negro people seem at one time to have been able to produce bronze work showing great skill in manufacture ...

Beautifully cast by expert craftsmen from Benin City in what’s now southwest Nigeria, the Benin Bronzes have been languishing in museums all over the world for almost 125 years. Increasingly ...

In Benin City, there has been a huge jump in awareness about the looted objects in the last decade, and artists, historians and activists have intensified their calls for restitution. Opinion is ...

But an hour’s flight away is Benin City, the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria, which, if whispers in the art world are anything to go by, is hot on Lagos’s heels. Today, Benin City is ...