Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

Overview

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.

Details

Cast

Abd Al Malik

Self - Narrator (voice)

Lilian Thuram

Self - Anti-racism Activist

Pascal Blanchard

Self - Historian

Sandrine Lemaire

Self - Historian

John M. MacKenzie

Self - Historian

Nicolas Bancel

Self - Historian

Jacob Cassady

Self - Museum Director

Fanny Robles

Self - Historian

Walter Palm Island

Self - Aboriginal Activist

Achille Mbembe

Self - Historian

Félix Tiouka

Self - Amerindian Activist

Gilles Boëtsch

Self - Anthropobiologist

Carolina Toka

Self - Moliko's Descendant

Lydia Toka

Self - Moliko's Descendant

Benjamin Stora

Self - Historian

Robert W. Rydell

Self - Historian

Pamela Newkirk

Self - Journalist

Ndiaga Seck

Self - J. Thiam's Descendant

Sylvie Chalaye

Self - Theater Historian

Sylvette Kaloïe

Self - M. Kaloïe's Descendant