Nigeria's history dates back long before the colonial era, with some of its most significant kingdoms emerging as early as 900 AD. These ancient kingdoms, many of which still exist today, played ...

In February 1897, an expeditionary force of 1,200 British soldiers and African auxiliaries crossed the moats and ancient mud walls around the city of Benin, in what is today southern Nigeria.

This incursion of 1,200 British soldiers captured and sacked Benin City (located in modern day Nigeria), stealing thousands of artefacts, which were taken to Britain and eventually dispersed to ...

In 1897, about 1,200 British soldiers raided one, the Kingdom of Benin, hoping to depose its oba and take bloody revenge for the killing of some colonial officials.

London’s Horniman Museum has announced it’ll hand over ownership of its 72 bronzes to Nigeria, home to Benin City, which the British looted in 1897. We investigate their story.

If whispers in the art world are anything to go by, Benin City, the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria, is hot on Lagos’s heels.

Art Smithsonian gives back 29 Benin bronzes to Nigeria: ‘We are not owners’ Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III and National Gallery of Art Director Kaywin Feldman preside over a formal ...