When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An ebony figurine, found in the Christian burial of a child, "shows a very detailed face and ...

A pair of irreplaceable bronze sculptures of two East African Benin leopards weighing at least 150kg each disappeared from the garden of a Claremont artefact collector. The collector, who wants to ...

Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a fire and pour a thick golden liquid ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Bronze sculpture is at home in the grounds and interiors of great houses — and for good reason. The grandeur of this ...

Ancient unique finds in the South: Five tiny figurines – including heads of African figures carved in black wood – were uncovered in 1500-year-old graves of women and children during an archaeological ...

Standing in Igun Street, the centre of African bronze casting for the past 10 centuries, Alex Agbonmwenre could tell a story about the British forces that razed Edo and destroyed the Benin Empire, ...

NEW YORK, May 1 (UPI) --When North Korea set out to forge diplomatic ties in newly independent African countries in the 1970s, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung dispatched some unlikely envoys: artists, ...

It was a very emotional day for the Clegg family as they gathered for the unveiling of a life-size bronze statue of the late musician, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, Johnny Clegg at the ...

One of the bronze sculptures stolen from the Johannesburg Art Gallery is worth about $16,000. Curators fear thieves sold it to a scrap dealer for a mere $250. Prices for metals with industrial uses ...

Heroes’ Acre looms on a hill overlooking Windhoek, Namibia’s tidy capital. Under a brilliant blue sky, a series of granite steps slope upwards in a wedge toward a triumphant bronze statue of an ...

An African prince has called on the city-owned Bristol Museum to ‘blaze the trail’ and return one of the thousands of priceless artefacts looted from the continent during the era of the British ...