They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...
They redefined European-centric views of African art, but their extraction from Benin was defined by British colonialism. In 1896 the British Consul in Lagos, Nigeria, attempted to enter neighbouring ...
In their capital city of Abomey ... narrative sculptures and the equally remarkable people who crafted them. Also included are a reading of the stories on the walls and details of the four-year ...
The group has the objective of establishing new museums in Benin City, including the forthcoming Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA), to facilitate permanent displays of objects from the Kingdom ...
In January 1897 the City of Benin, capital of the Edo Kingdom in southern Nigeria, possessed one of the most accomplished, long-surviving, and complex assemblages of court art to be found anywhere in ...
2022 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).
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