"Dahomey" filmmaker Mati Diop explains how she gives stolen African artifacts a voice in her "fantasy documentary" film.

No, because my first relationship to the subject of restitution was not concerning a specific African country. Before ...

the Africa Narrative Change Film Award, to Dahomey, a documentary that follows 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey as they leave Paris to return to their country of origin in the present ...

In the long run, the scale of the Atlantic trade caused instability and rivalry between many African states. Ouidah Slave Fort, Kingdom of Dahomey, 1700s. This fort was built by the French to ...

From Zimbabwe’s provinces to Mali’s streets, nations are casting off colonial labels in their quest for true independence and dignity in a revival of the pan-African spirit, writes ROGER McKENZIE ...

In her latest hybrid documentary, Dahomey—which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale this year—she exorcises the spirit of artifacts looted by the French from the West African kingdom of Dahomey between ...

In her Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey, French-­Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop charts the return of 26 artefacts looted from the African kingdom of Dahomey as they make their way back from ...

France decided to return a portion of the artefacts they had plundered from the former African kingdom of Dahomey, now Benin.

the nearly eradicated language of Dahomey, “that I lost myself in my dreams.” The device carried over from another project Diop had been cultivating, about an African mask telling its own story.

The award-winning ‘Dahomey’ is the latest film from Senegalese ... but it tells a compelling story about the looting and repatriation of African artifacts. Arsenal Frustrated In Draw At ...