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February 2026

  • George Osborne speaking

    Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne

    Without AI you will be a ‘weaker and poorer nation’, says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm

December 2025

  • A military armoured vehicle

    Burkina Faso releases 11 Nigerian troops after ‘unauthorised’ plane landing

    Military personnel told they can return to Nigeria after actions described as ‘unfriendly act’
  • Soldiers in a military vehicle on a busy street

    Nigerian troops held in Burkina Faso after ‘unfriendly’ emergency landing

    Unauthorised touchdown comes less than 24 hours after Nigerian forces intervened in attempted coup in Benin
  • Soldiers patrol the streets of Benin.

    Troops and warplanes deployed in Benin after ‘failed coup attempt’

    West African Ecowas forces sent to country after group of soldiers announced dissolution of government on state TV

November 2025

  • Architect's illustration of a large lattice-like structure with a dome and a stained-glass window in a park with palm trees

    ‘We can have art and greenery’: Black Muse festival marks opening of sculpture park in Benin City

    Project in southern Nigeria to honour the city’s centuries-old artistic traditions and bring a new audience to contemporary art

October 2025

  • A mural showing soldiers in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

    Sahel-based jihadists are extending their reach. Can a fractured region push back?

  • Detail shot of a so-called Benin bronze

    The Sunday readRestitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

August 2025

  • Three black women sit on the ground. A younger woman holds a microphone in front of an older woman who is pointing into the distance as another older woman listens while holding another mic

    ‘Well, no, you don’t have to have children’: what African women over the age of 60 have learned about life

    Women across west Africa have a life expectancy of 59. In a rare project, Sylvia Arthur set out to give voice to those who have lived beyond expectation, whose experiences have been largely overlooked

January 2025

  • A man in a yellow shirt stands against a mosaic depicting a of a man in a white suit and a lady is a pink dress

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series‘Africa is where I’m from’: why some Black Brazilians are moving to Benin

    West African country is offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved persons taken from the continent, sparking huge interest in Brazil

October 2024

  • A police officer throws a stone as people into a building for cover

    Breakdown in global order causing progress to stall in Africa – report

  • Mati Diop.

    ‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures

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 newsletterFriday 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 2023Let’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
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