“Ota Benga was one of us and here you are treating ... identifying pillaged Congolese artifacts and art at the African museum in Belgium and working to bring them back to the Congo.

In 1904, Ota Benga, a 23-year-old man from the Belgian Congo, was kidnapped by slave traders, sold to an American, and transported to the United States. In the name of “science,” Benga endured ...