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This Man Who Worked At The Bronx Zoo ... As An Exhibit!
May 6 2008, Nick

Ota Benga was a member of the Batwa people,[2] and lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Belgian Congo. Benga had survived the slaughter of much of his village by the Force Publique, an army of King Leopold II of Belgium...

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