Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes drew large crowds. As Bernth Lindfors shows, the showmen, impresarios, and even scientists who brought supposedly representative inhabitants of the "Dark Continent" to a gaping public often selected the