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In the late 19th to early 20th centuries, recreated African villages were set up across Europe as amusement parks that served to extol the supposed cultural superiority of colonising empires.
In the late 19th to early 20th centuries, recreated African villages were set up across Europe as amusement parks that served to extol the supposed cultural superiority of colonising empires.
By Bruno Fortea Miras Tervuren, Belgium, Nov 23 (EFE).- In 1897, a human zoo in the small Belgian town of Tervuren put 250 Congolese people on display to visitors and now, 125 years later, it is hosting an exhibition to address the country’s colonial past. Human Zoo. The age of colonial exhibitions, which runs until …