Post: Did you know that ? In nineteen, oh six, a young African man named Oda Banga was put on display in the Bronx Zoo, locked in a cage next to monkeys. People laughed, pointed, and threw peanuts at him. This was an ancient history. It happened in the twentieth century in America. Ota Banga was from the Congo, part of the Moody pygmy people. He was captured and sold to American explorer Samuel Verner, who paraded him at the St. Louis World's Fair. Nineteen, for as proof of African inferiority, scientists measured his skull, comparing him to animals. Two years later, Verner brought him to New York. And that's when the unimaginable happened. Oh, Tobacco was put in the Bronx Zoo Zoo zookeepers forced him to share a cage with an orangutan named Durham, forced to perform as a wild man. Newspapers called it a spectacle. Thousands watched daily, believing the lie that Africans were less than human. But not everyone stayed silent. Black ministers, led by Reverend James Gordon, fought for his freedom. After growing public outrage, the zoo was forced to release him. Yet he was still trapped alone in a foreign land with no way home. He tried to build a new life. He learned English, got a job and tried to move on, but the pain never left him. In nineteen, sixteen, ten years after being put in a cage oda Banga took his own life at just thirty two years old. His story was almost erased, but today we remember they put him in a cage, but they couldn't silence his spirit. Had you heard of Ota Bangsar before ? Let me know in the comments. Follow for more hidden African history share, Believe, inspire blacks be.

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