Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently ...

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 ...

In Benin, a 'kataklè' - a ceremonial stool, and the final piece of the royal treasure of Abomey - has been returned by ...

For 53-year-old Damien Agossou Degbo, the Chinese martial arts are not merely a physical discipline but a philosophy, a way of life, and above all, a bridge ...

Ezeluomba, curator of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and an expert on the bronzes who grew up in the Kingdom of Benin. Lehman is a great-grandson of Emanuel Lehman, one of three ...

Collectively known as Benin Bronzes, the sculptural heads ... In 2006, after decades of resistance, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York agreed to return a celebrated vase known as the ...

Damien Agossou Degbo (front) instructs his students at his martial arts club in Akpro-Misserete, a town some 40 kilometers ...