Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga Pamela Newkirk. Harper/Amistad, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-220100-3 ...

When a Congolese man named Ota Benga died in Lynchburg 100 years ago this past weekend, ... In 1906, he was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York in a monkey cage as “The Missing Link. ...

In 1906, the evolutionary atheists placed the Black man, Ota Benga, in a cage in the primate section of the New York Bronx Zoo so all the white folk could come gawk.

Since opening in 1899, the Bronx Zoo has gotten itself mired in a number of controversies. ... including the imprisonment of a Congolese man named Ota Benga in the monkey habitat in the early 1900s.

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 ...

Im promise say di society wey dey run di Bronx Zoo, go dey open about dis mata wey become big story for Europe and United States from 9 September 1906 - a day afta dem first exhibit Ota Benga ...

Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited. ... the Bronx Zoo in New York has finally expressed regret.

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 ...