Ota Benga was a man from the Mbuti people. He grew up near the Kasai River in what was then known as the Belgian Congo, run by King Leopold II as a personal preserve for his exclusive use and profit. Leopold’s forces routinely slaughtered Africans or enslaved them to extract natural resources, such as rubber, maiming them by […]
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