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Benin

August 2024

  • A busy road with people, market stalls, buses and trucks

    Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035

    Youthful, growing cities expected to create wealth and opportunities but stretch public and utility services

February 2024

  • Dahomey by French Senegalese film-maker Mati Diop.

    Dahomey review – interrogative reverie about looted African sculptures

  • Mati Diop gestures as she speaks at the premiere of her movie at the Berlin film festival

    France should return much more looted African art, film-maker says

January 2024

  • An interpretative panel explains how colonial rule included the Africa collection in the British Museum.

    First Edition newsletter
    Friday briefing: Why Britain is returning plundered artefacts back to Ghana – sort of

  • Two people stand under a large sculpted archway with abstract sculptures on either side

    Transatlantic slavery continued for years after 1867, historian finds

December 2023

  • Seen from above, Hibiscus Rising, a 9.5m-tall sculpture by international artist Yinka Shonibare

    ‘Embrace the unexpected’: African art boosts its presence at Venice Biennale

    Morocco and Benin will debut pavilions at the international exhibition in 2024 alongside Nigeria’s second showcase, as African artists, designers and film-makers ‘bulldoze’ their way on to the global stage

October 2023

  • Four African women with small babies wait in a tent

    Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

    Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds

May 2023

  • The Door of No Return monument at the historic slave port of Ouidah, Benin

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    Let’s teach children about slavery properly by connecting it to our present

    When treated purely as historical fact, the slave trade can be dismissed as an evil of the past – the reality is very different says English teacher and writer Lola Okolosie

April 2023

  • Benin bronzes on display at the British Museum.

    Benin bronzes made from metal mined in west Germany, study finds

    Brass used for west African artworks was acquired from manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the slave trade

March 2023

  • Muriel Akouewanou working in a textile factory

    Cutting its cloth: can a new industrial revolution transform Benin’s economy?

    The west African country, a leading cotton producer, is moving into processing finished goods, seen as a route to prosperity

February 2023

  • Women dance in a voodoo ceremony in Bopa, south-western Benin

    Women's right to choose
    Benin passed one of Africa’s most liberal abortion laws. Why are women still dying?

    Social and spiritual factors in the west African country mean that desperate women are still risking their lives by resorting to unsafe terminations
  • M Auto company to launch two types of electric motorbikes in Togo and Benin<br>People gesture as they prepare to test "Chap Chap" electric motorbikes in front of the M Auto headquarters in Cotonou, Benin September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Coffi Seraphin Zounyekpe

    A common condition
    Pollution revolution: can electric motorbikes help clean up Benin’s air?

    Polluted air is the second biggest killer in Africa; for moto-taxi drivers the risk from exhaust fumes is high. New bikes could be part of the solution – if they are affordable
  • Noah Anthony Enahoro

    My ancestors were pillaged to bring the Benin bronzes to England. It is white supremacy that keeps them here

    Noah Anthony Enahoro
    For me, as a descendant of the kingdom’s rulers, repatriation isn’t just diplomatic – it’s personal , asks Noah Anthony Enahoro, a freelance writer based in London

January 2023

  • Bowls of mushrooms that have been collected from Toui-Kilibo reserve in Benin.

    How mushrooms could mean economic independence for Benin’s women

    Some rural women could find a way through the challenges brought by climate crisis, inequality and conflict by cultivating fungi in the former Marxist state

November 2022

  • The ekpen, or leopard figures, are two of 5,240 objects in the Digital Benin database.

    Digital Benin project reunites bronzes looted by British soldiers

  • Viola Davis as Nansica in The Woman King.

    ‘It’s been nearly a month and it’s still sold out’: The Woman King takes over Benin’s only cinema

October 2022

  • Satellite image of Lagos, Nigeria.

    The long read
    Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century

    The long read: By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos
  • Viola Davis.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I can change the way Black women are seen’: Viola Davis on stereotypes, success and playing a warrior

    Raised in poverty, the actor has conquered Hollywood, winning an Oscar, an Emmy and two Tony awards. Now she has brought her passion project to the screen – The Woman King’s epic tale of an elite female fighting force
  • Viola Davis as Nansica in The Woman King.

    The Woman King review – Viola Davis leads the line in stirring warrior tale

    Davis is the general of an elite team of female fighters, based on the Agojie of 19th-century west Africa, as colonialists seek to exploit tribal conflict

September 2022

  • The Maori meeting house in the park at Clandon

    Surrey stately home to discuss return of 19th-century carvings to New Zealand

    Māori delegation to visit Clandon Park to discuss exchange of Hinemihi carvings for new works
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