Lead Photo: At the Makoko community, in Lagos, where excavators have demolished buildings this week. By Dionne Searcey | Photographs by Taiwo Aina RESIDENTS of a 19th-century fishing community nicknamed the “Venice of …
Nigerians had pleaded with Western museums to return the bronzes since the 1930s, but their calls largely fell on deaf ears until attitudes to returning colonial loot started to change in the last …
Throughout her career, Ms. Kouoh pushed to bring African artists to a world that had long either ignored them or typecast them. “I am part of that generation of African …
Lead photo credit…Ye Fan for The New York Times Soyinka was about 24 — out of his country for the first time, living in England — when he wrote “The …
Photo Caption: The flooding after a dam collapsed in northeastern Nigeria. Most people in Maiduguri had no experience with serious flooding. The city, just on the edge of the Sahel, …
Lead Image: A woman at a salon having relaxer applied to her hair. Credit… Naila Ruechel for The New York Times Black people, and particularly Black women, have had a …
Captio: The Nigeria pavilion fills a semi-restored palazzo in Venice’s Dorsoduro district with projects that cast an oblique but pointed look at history.Credit…Matteo de Mayda for The New York Times …
China on Wednesday made its first public comments about reports that the government is restricting the use of Apple’s iPhones by some state employees, saying that Beijing had noted what …
President Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday to a joint session of Congress. The following is a transcript of his remarks, as recorded by The …
As more looted art comes back to Africa, countries have wrestled with the right way to display it. That 200,000 people have lined up for a show suggests Benin has …
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