Through dazzling beadwork, a mixed-media art exhibit celebrates African Yoruba heritage and family traditions from a rising ...

A show focused on Ladi Kwali and other Black female potters is a revelation.

African artists are redefining global culture by fusing traditional and contemporary art forms. Their work challenges ...

Videos showed a group insulting foreign guests and ordering them to leave after entering the grounds of the Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) in Benin City on Sunday. The museum ...

At Abu Dhabi Art 2025, two key Focus section delve into the rich visual culture and art scenes of Nigeria and Turkey.

Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week's opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on ...

In Dakar, the capital of a country where 97 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, I found a palpable connection ...

Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu's work entitled 'Tutu' - the African Mona Lisa -- was one of the works that captured the emergence of Nigeria's art market. [AFP] First there was Tutu, the "African Mona ...

:: "This one, it is knacking (cracking) not drawing. You know, something you draw is different with knacking. Knacking is, you have to get the accurate place you are knacking, you understand, if you ...

The opening of the multi-million-dollar Museum of West African Arts has been delayed due to protests. Early plans saw it as ...

LAGOS, NIGERIA (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron has praised the skills of an 11-year-old Nigerian artist who drew a stunning portrait of him in just two hours. Kareem Waris Olamilekan drew a ...

*My late mother’s brother-in-law, the late Engineer Idowu Akinde was an Executive Engineer at PWD in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, through whom Dr. Dele Jegede got his first job as a youngster. This provided ...