Before the white coffin containing Kenyan hawker Boniface Kariuki was carried into a vehicle for his final journey home, his ...

Kenyan Gen Zs did not keep quiet as they ferried the body of face mask vendor Boniface Mwangi Kariuki who was shot by a ...

The trial has attracted attention among France’s large African diaspora and among those at the court were several Gabonese protesters demanding that the mask be returned to their country.

An antiques dealer who sold a rare African mask for $4.6 million won a legal battle with the elderly couple who sold it to him for $165 without realizing the treasure’s actual worth.

Mr. Lee, 58, wasn’t new to the work of preserving cemeteries. We had met earlier in the week while he was giving a saliva sample to the Anson Street African Burial Ground Project, which is ...

A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction.

An elderly couple has sued an antique dealer after selling what they thought was a "worthless" African mask for $157. The dealer later put it up for auction, where it sold for $4.4 million.

The item, a large wooden mask measuring 2 ½ feet tall, is a good example of the quality work coming out of Africa at the time, DuMouchelle said. Unfortunately, it is not an older example of ...

A 20th-century African mask sold for £107,100, more than 300 times its guide price. The Kwele mask from Gabon was given an estimate of between £300 to £500 by Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury ...

Paris, France (CNN) — When an elderly couple held a garage sale after selling their second home in the south of France, little did they know they would become embroiled in a legal battle with ...

The rare African mask at the center of a fierce multimillion-dollar legal battle. ... The Fourniers sold their mask in September of 2021 to a second-hand dealer for 150 euros, court documents show.