Sarah Baartman, called "Saartjie" (the diminutive form), was likely born in 1789 in the Gamtoos valley in the eastern part of the Cape Colony. In 1810, she went to England with her employer, a free black man (a Cape designation for someone of slave descent) called Hendrik Cesars, and William Dunlop, an English doctor who worked at the Cape slave lodge.[1] They sought to show her for money on the London stage. Sara Baartman spent four years on stage in England and Ireland. Early on, her treatment on the Picadilly stage caught the attention of British abolitionists, who argued that her performance was indecent and that she was being forced to perform against her will. Ultimately, the court ruled in favour of her exhibition after Dunlop produced a contract made between himself and Baartman. It is doubtful that this contract was valid: it was probably produced for the purposes of the trial.[1][4] Cesars left the show and Dunlop continued to display Baartman in country fairs. Baartman also moved to Manchester where she was baptized as Sarah Bartmann. In 1814, after Dunlop's death, a man called Henry Taylor brought Baartman to Paris. He sold her to an animal trainer, S. Reaux, who made her amuse onlookers who frequented the Palais-Royal. Georges Cuvier, founder and professor of comparative anatomy at the Museum of Natural History examined Baartman as he searched for proof of a so-called missing link between animals and human beings. Baartman's body became the foundation for racist science.[citation needed] Baartman lived in poverty, and died in Paris of an undetermined inflammatory disease in December 1815. After her death, Cuvier dissected her body, and displayed her remains. For more than a century and a half, visitors to the Museum of Man in Paris could view her brain, skeleton and genitalia as well as a plaster cast of her body. Her remains were returned to South Africa in 2002 and she was buried in the Eastern Cape on South Africa's Women's Day.[1][4]Wakuu heshima kwenu..
Nilisoma mahali kumuhusu Huyu mama aitwae Sarah Baartman ambaye inasemekana alikua na shepu ya haja kwa maana ya makalio pamoja na kuwa na mashavu makubwa ya uke kiasi kwamba wazungu waliomsafirisha toka Afrika kusini mpaka nchi za ulaya na kwenda kumuonesha kwenye kumbi kwa kiingilio..
Ningependa kuifahamu story yake kwa undani kwa wale wenye vyanzo tofauti kumuhusu huyu mama .View attachment 512453 View attachment 512454
Walichuckua na ubongo wake piaIt was so sad manake sehemu zake za siri zilifanyiwa upasuaji immediately alipofariki kabla hata mwili haujapoa na wakauweka kwenye museums.
But at least Madiba alifanikisha kuhamisha remains zake na zikapelekwa SA kwa ajili ya kuzikwa.
Fancy that.Walichuckua na ubongo wake pia
Safi kabisa! sio mtu anakuja tamaa zake tu. kuna nini cha kujifunza???Pia tupate sababu za msingi za kujua habari zake kiundani zaid zinatufanya tujifunze nini???
Dah! Hizo poems zimenipa huzuni sana. Nilimsoma mara ya kwanza mwaka 2015 habari zake, niliumia mno mno.
Huyu Dada ni m south alipelekwa ufaransa kwaajili ya maonyesho sababu ya umbile lake LA kiafrica hakugawa mbunye sema walikua wakimuingilia ki nguvu wazungu na baadae alifariki mwili uliendelea kua wa maonyesho lakini Serikali ya south na watu wa haki za binadamu walipiga kelele mpaka mwili ukarudishwa S.A na ukazikwa.Alipelekwa ulaya kutokana na lijishepu lake huko akawa kama kideo kwenye circus na kuna kipindi akatoka akaanza umalaya hadi mauti inamkuta. Alipofariki mwili wake ulichukuliwa kwa ajili ya "scientific research"
Wametunyanyasa sana wazunguWaafrika tulikuwa tunawekwa kwenye zoo..dah!! Leo tunashindana kwenye lugha zao!