The Yaa Ansaa Royal Family, the hereditary custodians of the historic Akwamu Kingdom (also known as Aquambo), are going to ...

M ati Diop’s “fantasy-documentary” Dahomey helps us sift through cultural exploitation by Hollywood, Broadway, and other centers of political instruction. Theodor Adorno, of the Marxist Frankfurt ...

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...

The UN has reported that at least 200,000 children are trafficked annually in the west and central African slave trade. Although ... were being trafficked from Benin to Gabon.

The Benin bronzes celebrate practices that persist today: Edo state remains a hub of human trafficking in Africa ... and most continue to erase the slave trade origin from museum exhibits.

Below, five African adventures—from the deep jungles of Congo to the museums of Benin—that take you far beyond the savanna.

From roughly 1600 to 1900, the Kingdom of Dahomey carved out a powerful position in West Africa and a unique place on the ...

The kingdom of Benin was one of Africa’s wealthiest and most organised ... in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which was a growing economic force in West Africa at the time.

The National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) is set to collaborate with the Brazilian Consulate on the ...

A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?