Among those brought to Britain were six members of the Bambuti tribe, who came from their homeland in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo to perform at London s Hippodrome.
Peter Lobengula (pictured left with fellow miners in 1901) was the 25-year-old grandson of the King of Matabele, whose forces were defeated in battle in what is now Zimbabwe in the 1890s.
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