IOWA CITY — Like more than a dozen other museums working to return to Nigeria objects and artifacts stolen in the 1800s, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has arranged an audience with the ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria on Tuesday. The bronzes, which ...

When British soldiers stole the treasured works in 1897, it left a gaping hole in an ancient culture. With a few set to return to Nigeria, can their meaning be restored, too? By Ruth Maclean and Alex ...

Nigerian man spotted in British museum (Photo source: Facebook user, Dion Osagie) A Facebook user identified as Ambassador Dion Osagie, who is from Edo state, has taken to the social networking ...

Following its cinema release on Friday, December 5, 2014, Lancelot Imasuen's historical epic, 'Invasion 1897', has witnessed tremendous attendance in cinemas across Nigeria. The movie which received a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Jack McCaslin is a research associate for Africa policy studies at the Council on ...

Like more than a dozen other museums working to return to Nigeria objects and artifacts stolen in the 1800s, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has arranged an audience with the Oba of Benin ...