Four new museums across the country are planned over the next five years and a new cultural quarter is under construction in the biggest city, Cotonou

The war in Gaza casts a dark shadow over 2023

The presentation will be curated by Azu Nwagbogu, founder of the African Artists’ Foundation and former director of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art

"Digital Benin" catalogue gathers together information on objects stolen from the Kingdom of Benin and now held in collections around the world

Twenty years since its conception and at a cost of around €680m, the new German museum must now follow through on its restitution promises

Stolen artefacts will be given back to Nigeria, India and a Native American tribe

Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle seeks "proactive repatriation" after "forceful removal" by British troops in 1897

A farewell exhibition, due to be visited by French President Emmanuel Macron this week, is being hosted at the French museum. But the West African nation is "not satisfied" with the partial restitution

Returning objects to their original homes is a way of righting past wrongs. But there's more to it than that

The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October

The 17th-century oba head was plucked from the Nigerian National Museum and given to Elizabeth II as a thank-you gift

New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution

As restitution momentum builds, director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it could lead discussions for the return of looted Benin objects in US museum collections

South London museum has released new policies on restitution but says it will need to seek legal advice about the right to return artefacts

Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray

We speak to museum experts András Szántó and Sonia Lawson. Plus, Dan Hicks on the legacy of colonial looting and National Gallery curator Christopher Riopelle on the Polish painter Jan Matejko

Senate approves bill to return 27 colonial-era artefacts from museum collections to Africa within one year

Academics challenge the provenance of the Edo plaque as well as two Igbo alusi figures that sold under estimate for €212,500

Controversial statue was dismantled and thrown into the harbour during a Black Lives Matter rally

Project is backed by the Ernst von Siemens art foundation, which seeks “a more factual focus to the discussions about restitution”

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery wants to work in tandem with the Benin Dialogue Group, which is made up of institutions that hold the majority of the pieces

But restitution depends on the adoption of a law covering these specific items, while Benin secures a location to house them

Statue of a cockerel was looted by the British in 1897 from the Court of Benin