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carved ivory salt-cellar

16th century,
Benin City, Nigeria.
-National Museum of Denmark
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February 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
copper-alloy headress surmounted by a lion
19th century
Dahomey, Benin.
-Yale University Art Gallery
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February 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
gold armlets decorated with geometric designs, open work, and filigree work.

1825-1890
Swahili
Zanzibar, Tanzania

-British Museum
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March 20, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Bronze statue of the goddess Isis
Kawa, Sudan
Napatan period (750-300BC)
-Ashmolean Museum
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August 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
carved wooden figures in the form of a Hen
18th-19th century
Benin City, Nigeria

-Stanley Museum of Art
-Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
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November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
game pieces from the Napatan period

-Head of a cat, Electrum
820–800 B.C. Pyramid 13, el-Kurru, Sudan.
-Playing piece with animal head, Faience
690–664 B.C. Meroe, W 609, Sudan
-Gaming die, Sandstone
750–270 B.C. Pyramid 61, Nuri, Sudan

-Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
near life-size terracotta head from Ife

12th–15th century,
Nigeria.
-Met Museum
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January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
15-17th century Ge'ez manuscript:
Miracles of Mary

-Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (digitized by HMML)
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June 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
a few more chariot images from the Acacus region, S.W. Libya
-british museum
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September 22, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Painted panels of a triptych
19th century
Ethiopia
-British Museum

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April 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
An Efik brass charger embossed with a central robed female figure and two servants holding a fan and an umbrella (brass)

19th century, Calabar, Nigeria
-Private collection
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September 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Mukudj (mask)
Punu artist
Gabon
mid-19th–mid-20th century
Metropolitan Museum
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July 10, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Carved ivory double bell depicting the king and attendants
Early 16th century
Benin City, Nigeria.
-Brooklyn Museum

Staff finial with equestrian figure
19th century
Benin City, Nigeria.
-Pitt Rivers Museum

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July 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
fragments of a temple relief depicting the goddess Isis, a king seated on a lion-throne, and a row of jackals above a row of stars.

Meroitic period, Sudan.
-British Museum
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April 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Ivory staff finial with a seated European figure

Late 19th-early 20th century
Attié artist, Côte d'Ivoire
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September 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Un Sénégalais Wolof
Dakar, Senegal.

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April 30, 2026 at 4:47 PM
leather bookcase
containing stack of papers with Qur'anic text.
ca. 1846–71
Kano, Nigeria
-British Museum

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April 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
17th-century manuscript
Mamma Haidara Memorial Library, Timbuktu.
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July 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Gold-plated copper alloy bracelet
Wolof artist, Senegal
20th cent.
-Smithsonian
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September 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Biconical pendant made of gilded silver
Early 20th cent.
Dakar, Senegal.
-British Museum
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August 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
painting in the 18th-century church of Narga Selassie

Lake Tana, Ethiopia
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June 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
copper-alloy coins

15th century,
reign of Ali Ibn Yusuf.
Mogadishu, Somalia.
-British Museum

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November 29, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Firearms used by the Ndebele kingdom.
Zimbabwe, ca. 1897

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June 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Brass plaques depicting an Edo warrior (left) and a Portuguese warrior (right)

16th-17th century,
Benin city, Nigeria
-British Museum
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March 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Swahili manuscript: Utenzi wa Hirqal (Story of Heraclius)

written by Mwana Kupona (1810-1860), copied by Kijuma Muhammad
Lamu, Kenya.
SOAS, London

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March 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM