Access to remains of Bambuti baby withdrawn by London museum

Hunterian had listed stillborn child of African descent as viewable for medical research but removed it after criticism from authorThe remains of a stillborn Bambuti baby have been removed from a museum ’s catalogue of items that can be viewed for medical research after criticism from a Booker prize-shortlisted author.Novelist Nadifa Mohamed is the presenter of an upcoming Channel 4 documentary examining the history of “human zoos” in Britain, in which African and Asian people were put on display to the wider public in a practice which is now deemed to have been deeply racist.Britain ’s Human Zoos is on Channel 4 on Saturday 28 OctoberContinue reading...
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