Ota Benga, a 23-year-old man from the Belgian Congo, was kidnapped by slave traders, sold to an American, and transported to the United States. In the name of “science,” Benga endured the dehumanizing ...

The ethnographic focus is on Baka (Pygmies) and their Bantu-speaking neighbours living side by side in the rainforest of the north-western Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). Their current attitudes to ...