Fury as Chinese Museum Compares Black People to Animals

A museum in China has removed an exhibition that showed photographs of animals with portraits of black Africans, sparking complaints of racism. The exhibition titled, This Is Africa, at the Hubei Provincial Museum displayed a series of diptychs, each one containing a photo of an African person paired with the face of an animal.

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The portraits of Africans alongside animals.

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