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An African village was one of the attractions during the 1958(!) World Expo in Brussels. My mother remembers it very well going there as a teenager. https://ww
by tverbeure 7y ago
An African village was one of the attractions during the 1958(!) World Expo in Brussels. My mother remembers it very well going there as a teenager.
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/m_features/human-zoos-a-shocking-history-of-shame-and-exploitation https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/m_features/human-zoos-a-sh... :
"And by the time of the fair in Brussels, the notion of a human zoo was largely considered distasteful and had been banned in most countries.
Yet change didn’t happen quickly enough for those of the Congolese village in 1958. A number of the original 297 died during the show and were buried in a mass, unmarked grave."