BBC4 年
Caged Congolese teen: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise
Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited. Journalist Pamela Newkirk, who has written extensively about the subject ...
来自MSN8 个月
Race ‘science’ and the forgotten odyssey of Ota Benga
The case in point is the forgotten odyssey of Ota Benga. In 1904, Ota Benga, a Congolese ‘pygmy’ was taken away from Africa by an ambitious missionary, Samuel Phillips Verner, to be exhibited ...
The New York Times6 年
OTA BENGA HAVING A FINE TIME.; A Vistor at the Zoo Finds No Reason for Protests About the ...
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Moviefone1 年
Ota Benga
In 1904 a man named Ota Benga was removed from the Congo in Central Africa and placed in the New York City Bronx Zoo, in a cage with primates. He spent his nights at the Monkey house. He was on ...