Visitors will marvel at the vividness of the royal drapes with the emblems of the kings of Dahomey (today Benin) and see the ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms ... Its art and religion influenced the culture of Benin, which began in the 900s and reached the height of its power between the 1400s and the ...

The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has signed MOUs with the National Gallery of Art (NGA), and the Centre for Black and ...

Nigeria said it plans to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City in 2026, designed by the British-Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye, to house the largest collection of Benin ...

In 2026, Nigeria plans to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City. The museum will house a majority of the ...

Benin City, Nigeria, is surrounded by an ancient moat and the remains of a city wall. This former Edo-Bini capital, 150 mi/240 km east of Lagos, Nigeria, has a traditional oba's (king's) palace a ...

For those reasons, the State Department under the provisions of the 2019 Global Fragility Act (GFA) selected five coastal West African states—Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Togo—as a ...