The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The collector who owned them took them back instead. By Colin Moynihan and Tom ...

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April, but most of the works it had been created to display will not be repatriated to their place of origin.

Because many of the sculptures had been originally plundered in a bloody British raid in 1897, the MFA subsequently sought a deal to transfer title to the Kingdom of Benin in exchange for a long ...

Fifty manillas bought a woman; 57 bought a male. The Benin Kingdom stole our ancestors and sold them to European slave traders for more than 300 years, producing as many as 8,000 of these brass ...

Osamede, a fictional film set against the backdrop of the 1897 British invasion of the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria, will debut internationally at the 2025 Cannes Film Market on 17 May at the Pavillon ...

What ‘Black Panther’ did for Afrofuturism, we’re doing for African historical fantasy rooted in actual Benin Kingdom mythology. Our approach combines authentic cultural elements with ...

Directed by AMVCA winner James Omokwe and executive produced by Lilian Olubi, the film plunges viewers into the 1897 colonial Benin Kingdom ... through fantasy, drawing a parallel to “Black ...

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