A group of women under the aegis of Concerned Market Women staged a peaceful protest in Benin City on Monday, condemning the ...

The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo and neighbouring Benin is home to the Batammariba, whose remarkable mud tower-houses are known as takienta (sikien in the plural). Nature is strongly ...

Mathias Azonnoudo, a 50-year-old farmer in Benin, was taking a break sitting on a large pile of freshly picked cotton, which the government hopes will feed the country's nascent textile revolution.

This brass figure is believed to be Prince Oranmiyan. Edo legend says that no one in Benin had ever seen a horse before Oranmiyan arrived! In the 1100s the Ogisos lost control of their kingdom.

Benin craft workers made many kinds of art. Learn how brass casters made art and why animals were important. Kingdoms of West Africa West Africa has been home to many kingdoms. Find out about the ...