Artist community in Lagos couldn’t have wished for a more merrier and rewarding week than penultimate week, when the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos hosted a solo travelling exhibition by Dr. (Princess ...

DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved ...

The Benin people located in the southern part of Nigeria are well known for their beautiful traditional attire that showcases coral beads. These beads decorate the Benin royals and are also used by ...

What do you do after you’ve made the first Afrobeats song to top U.S. radio, the first to earn more than a billion streams on Spotify as a track led by an African artist, and the first to cinch the ...

*U.S. singer Ciara has officially become a citizen of Benin under the country’s new Afro-descendant citizenship law. The Grammy-winning artist received her citizenship during a ceremony in Cotonou, ...

DAKAR, Senegal - U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved ...

Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has restated his administration’s commitment to preserving the sanctity of Benin culture and tradition, vowing that no action under his watch will ...

The Federal High Court has been urged to restrain the promoters of the controversial Museum of West African Contemporary Culture and Arts (MOWAA) and their agents from establishing, opening or ...

Her unflinching drive has helped shift the general attitude toward the arts in the West African country and create an active ...

On the newly-renovated streets of Ouidah, thousands of Beninese and foreign tourists gathered this week to discover the rituals and deities bound up with voodoo, a popular animist tradition which has ...

The relationship between these two ethnic groups has been the subject of countless debates because of the similarities that exist between the two kingdoms. We have to delve into the creation stories ...

Each year on August 15, Benin celebrates the Yam Festival. The event marks the harvest period and draws thousands of Beninois and tourists to Savalou, the city of the Gbaguidi royal family. Savalou is ...