re: #297 Varek Raith

en.wikipedia.org

Well, that’s a depressing read.

Especially this:

The concept of the human zoo has not completely disappeared. A Congolese village was displayed at the Brussels 1958 World’s Fair.[15] In April 1994, an example of an Ivory Coast village was presented as part of an African safari in Port-Saint-Pre, near Nantes, in France, later called Plante Sauvage.

An African village was opened in Augsburg’s zoo in Germany in July 2005. In August 2005, London Zoo also displayed humans wearing fig leaves.
In 2007, Adelaide Zoo ran a Human Zoo exhibit which consisted of a group of people who, as part of a study exercise, had applied to be housed in the former ape enclosure by day, but then returned home by night. The inhabitants took part in several exercises, much to the amusement of onlookers, who were asked for donations towards a new ape enclosure. In 2007, Pygmy performers at the Festival of Pan-African Music were housed (although not exhibited) at a zoo in Brazzaville, Congo.

In Mexican zoos, such as Guadalajara Zoo and most evidently at the well-known safari Africam Safari, located in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico; there are “African Villages displayed, with sculptures of Africans with a bone on their head cooking a white explorer, and there are even native African people working as exhibit in these safari parks.