• Khanya Mtshali

Although films like 'The Woman King' offer us a small glimpse into the past, they cannot give us the full story.

• Flore Nobime
• Olivier van Beemen

Journalism has become a risky and dangerous business in Benin.

• Zeyad el Nabolsy

Must indigenous knowledge be science to be valid? Philosopher Paulin J. Hountondji shows that we must ask why Africa is scientifically and technologically dependent in the first place.

• Molemo Moiloa

Two books, by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and journalist Barnaby Phillips respectively, detail how we got to this point in the restitution of African heritage.

• Lily Saint

There can no longer be false justifications for holding Benin Bronzes, and other pilfered materials, in museums outside of Africa.

• Robina Marks

An encounter on a cross continental flight with white South African men and their ways, by Robina Marks, a black woman and South Africa’s ambassador in Benin.

• Annalisa Bolin

We all want to see Africa's heritage repatriated to the continent. But what happens after it returns?

• Dave Glovsky

France no longer has an excuse to hold on to Senegal's cultural heritage. Senegal has a place for it.

• Shamira Muhammad
• Orlando Reade

An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”

• Jonathan Duncan

The artist Gérard Quenum's work suggest that society’s collective bad parenting and maltreatment cannot ever, completely ransack the spirit.

• Tom Devriendt