The Benin Traditional Council (BTC), Edo State, has condemned the misuse and abuse of the Kingdom’s revered customs and ...

The state government also withdrew the letter revoking the concession of the Oba ... Benin Royal Museum that will house the returned artefacts and is distancing itself from the Museum of West ...

On top of this one is a figure of the Oba with his attendants. At the moment, many museums still hold hundreds of pieces of Benin art. These artefacts are important to the people of modern-day ...

Crocodiles and leopards, appear many times in the art of Benin. This brass plaque shows the Oba’s butchers carrying a cow to be sacrificed to the gods. The Oba sacrificed huge numbers of cattle ...

The Oba of Benin is the legitimate owner ... returned artefacts to be housed in the Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) that it plans to build in Benin City. It is the capital of the ...

was silent on the name of the aspirant but said some of those jostling for the party’s ticket had given tacit support to former Governor Godwin Obaseki against the revered Benin Monarch, Oba ...

head of Sotheby's African art department, told the BBC. The Court of the Oba of Benin is one of 12 of his works on sale from the auction house's London base and they all reflect this thinking.

In this case, we're looking at Benin art, which wasn’t considered art at the time ... And in this case, the reigning Oba is to inherit his father. When it came to their way of living within the ...