Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035
Youthful, growing cities expected to create wealth and opportunities but stretch public and utility services Six African cities will have more than 10 million people...
Category : Benin
France should return much more looted African art, film-maker says
Mati Diop, the director of Dahomey, which charts the restitution of 26 objects to Benin, says the tiny number involved is ‘humiliating’ The first major...
Friday briefing: Why Britain is returning plundered artefacts back to Ghana – sort of
In today’s newsletter: 32 pieces of Asante gold are to return home from the British Museum and V&A … but only on loan • Sign...
Transatlantic slavery continued for years after 1867, historian finds
Exclusive: Evidence found by Hannah Durkin includes ships landing in Cuba in 1872, and people held in Benin in 1873 Historians have generally assumed that...
Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women
Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds Only a third of...
Benin bronzes made from brass mined in west Germany, study finds
Metal used for west African artworks was acquired from manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the slave trade Scientists have discovered that some of the...
London museum returns 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria
Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897 A London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts,...
