The Netherlands is preparing to return 113 stolen ancient sculptures to Nigeria amid growing momentum in the campaign to ...

Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860, at a slave port in what's now Benin. In 1860—52 ... to smuggle more than a hundred African captives into Alabama, a crime ...

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

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

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

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 ...

It owes much of its vibrancy to the Voudun culture that emerged here during the height of the slave trade in the 16th century. On trips around Benin (or the wider West Africa region), ethnographic ...

“You can’t talk about the island without mentioning the slave trade and the colonial era ... more and more tourists come from within the African continent. Martine, herself hails from Benin and is ...

Admitting that the African slave trade theme isn’t a new one ... enslaved Africans—many of them from what is now Nigeria, Benin, and other West African nations—defeated the French army.

This week on Business Africa, we cover the resurgence of oil production in South Sudan, the strengthening of economic ties between Benin and CARICOM, and the impact of internet shutdowns in ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ... persistent trade in slavery reaching across North and East Africa, the Ottoman ...

part of an attempt by the country to reckon with their participation in the slave trade. According to The Associated Press, Benin is one of the few African countries that is invested in offering ...