The Oba of Benin Palace in Benin City yesterday placed curses on individuals and collaborators plotting to tarnish the Benin monarchy and those peddling false narratives about Benin customs and ...

Like some West African music, the Benin brass plaques are principally concerned with praising the oba. They were nailed to the walls of his palace ... a hundred years ago. To many, they're ...

This is a Benin bronze. It was cast by one of the Oba’s metalworkers to decorate the pillars of his palace. What can you see in this bronze? What might it represent? The Obas lived in a large ...

The Benin Palace has banished the six traditional functionaries who were recently suspended for paying allegiance to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. The functionaries were accused of ...