Ota Benga was first brought to the US tobe gawked at at the St. Louis World's Fair (the "Meet Me in St. Louie, Louie" fair). Benga was returned to Africa after the fair but his family had been decimated by war and he was brought back to the US, this time to the Bronx Zoo. Black religious leaders were incensed.
Today the Ota Benga Society is directed by Jacques Depelchin, visit prof at UC Berkeley and author of Silences in African History. Dan Scanlan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
