Experience the sights, culture, history and entertainment of the ancient city. The Royal Palace of the Oba of Benin is the most prestigious site in Benin and one of the most famous Royal Houses in the ...

Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by conquest and loss to become a bustling urban center of more than 2 million residents. Once the heart of the powerful Kingdom of ...

The Rietberg Museum in Zurich, which dates to the early 1950s, owes its origins to a collection largely amassed in the 1920s ...

The forthcoming Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, is sitting atop a treasure trove of cultural heritage. Valuable archaeological remains from the former Kingdom of Benin ...

Benin City’s story has always been one of resilience, history, and reinvention. From its origins as the political and cultural heart of the ancient Benin Empire, the cradle of black civilisation, to ...

This is an important story of a lost old-fashioned city you've probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo. It was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in the ...

When a Benin City boy like Nigerian Afrobeats sensation Rema rises to global stardom, selling out international shows and recording the first song led by an African-artist to surpass a billion streams ...

LAST month an extraordinary collection of photographs returned to Nigeria. Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge took pictures of the people of Benin City for over half a century, amassing an archive of more ...

The Benin Traditional Council (BTC), on behalf of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II, has sanctioned ...