For weeks, residents of Iyekogba in Benin City have seen a 15-metre-high tower rising up in the middle of their quiet, residential neighbourhood. On 8 November, the building, a domed …
Tag:
Benin
- Car Culture & Lifestyle
Sahel-based jihadists are extending their reach. Can a fractured region push back?
Among the thousands of refugees who have fled Mali since a jihadist uprising began more than a decade ago, one group is bound together by a grim commonality: their husbands …
- Car Culture & Lifestyle
Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas
In a corner of the new Museum of West African Art, visitors can marvel at a sample display of the cultural treasures that adorned the royal palace that once stood …


