Benin art features people ... Now, head south over France and into Africa. We are in that little corner where Nigeria will be one day. You’ve made it! Welcome to the Benin civilisation.

At the moment, many museums still hold hundreds of pieces of Benin art. These artefacts are important to the people of modern-day Africa and many people are campaigning for the art to be returned ...

black-and-white photographs taken by Constance Stuart Larrabee in South Africa between 1936 and 1983, Henry and Margaret Thompson Drewal’s field research depicting Yorùbá art and culture, Nigerian ...

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the British Punitive Expedition, which saw thousands of sculptures and cultural artefacts stolen during the destruction of Benin City (in present-day Nigeria).