And all this, it will be history. This 16th century brass statue shows a soldier. Europeans in Benin art were often shown holding a gun. The craft workers of Benin often showed Europeans in their art.

The spots are copper discs and the eyes are made from mirrors. Benin art features people, animals and gods. Crocodiles and leopards, appear many times in the art of Benin. This brass plaque shows ...

Chief Uwadiae Jacob Egharevba (1893-1980) was a pioneering scholar who made a vital early contribution to understanding of the history and art of Benin. Through his father Egharevba was descended from ...

In January 1897 the City of Benin, capital of the Edo Kingdom in southern Nigeria, possessed one of the most accomplished, long-surviving, and complex assemblages of court art to be found anywhere in ...

The Vodun religion, also spelled “Vodou,” originated in the Kingdom of Dahomey, present-day Benin, Nigeria, Togo and Ghana.

The Aiguobasinmwin Movement in a peaceful protest in Benin City on Thursday urged Governor Monday Okpebholo to immediately revoke the C-of-O of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), and convert ...