Hunterian had listed stillborn child of African descent as viewable for medical research but removed it after criticism from author
The 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 October
