In a rare U.S. show, Feng Xiao-Min reflects on Taoism, tradition and artistic independence while balancing Chinese ink and ...

Finland has returned a ceremonial stool that was looted from what is now Benin by French forces more than a century ago, a ...

Guinea-Bissau, where there are virtually no art galleries, no art schools and little government funding for the arts, has ...

A visitor looks at a portrait of Oluṣẹgun Ọbasanjọ, at an exhibition in Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in ...

After about 500 years of imperial dominance—extending into present-day Republic of Benin and Togo, and reaching the Sahelian fringes of Nupe, Borgu, and parts of Hausaland—the fall of the Old Oyo ...