Field Museum wants to showcase a more nuanced representation of Africa

Field Museum wants to showcase a more nuanced representation of Africa
Foreman Bandama in the Field Museum's Grainger Science Hub talking with visitors on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Katharine Uhrich / Field Museum
Field Museum wants to showcase a more nuanced representation of Africa
Foreman Bandama in the Field Museum's Grainger Science Hub talking with visitors on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Katharine Uhrich / Field Museum

Field Museum wants to showcase a more nuanced representation of Africa

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The Field Museum’s Africa hall hasn’t seen major updates since it opened to the public in 1993. A new assistant curator wants to change that.

Reset discusses his plans to reimagine the exhibit.

GUEST: Foreman Bandama, assistant curator of African anthropology at the the Field Museum