In the ancient town of Ouidah, located in southern Benin, the annual Voodoo Festival unfolds with a vibrant mix of dance, rituals, and spiritual fervour. Children dressed in vivid robes whirl to ...

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers, ivory ...

Hello future people of the UK! I’d like to show you around The Benin Civilisation but to do that you’ve got to go back 500 years. Before Queen Victoria, before the Spanish Armada right back to ...