Benga had been freed from slave traders in the Congo by the missionary Samuel Phillips Verner, who had taken him to Missouri.

Verner discovered Ota Benga while ' en route ' to a Batwa village visited previously ; he negotiated Benga's release for a pound of salt and a bolt of cloth.

Verner was unable to persuade any villagers to join him until Benga spoke of how the muzungu had saved his life, the bond that had grown between them, and his own curiosity about the world Verner came from.

Not feeling that he belonged with the Batwa, Benga chose to return with Verner to the United States.

Verner eventually arranged for Benga to stay in a spare room at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City while he was tending to other business.

At the suggestion of Bumpus, Verner took Benga to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

Verner was unsuccessful in his continued search for employment, but he occasionally spoke to Benga.

Phillips Verner Bradford, the grandson of Samuel Phillips Verner, wrote a book on the Congolese entitled Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo ( 1992 ).

* 2002, Ota Benga was the subject of the short documentary Ota Benga: A Pygmy in America directed by the Brazilian Alfeu França, who incorporated original movies recorded by Verner in the early 20th century.

Benga lost his wife and two children, surviving only because he was away on a hunting expedition when the Force Publique attacked his village.

In 1914 when World War I broke out, a return to the Congo became impossible, and Benga became depressed as his hopes for a return to the Congo faded.

In 1906, socialite and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant, head of the New York Zoological Society, had Congolese pygmy Ota Benga put on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City alongside apes and other animals.

There are also Benga artists are based in other countries than Kenya, such as American / Kenyan group Extra Golden.

Ota Benga ( circa 1883 – March 20, 1916 ) was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy known for being featured with other Africans in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, and later in a controversial human zoo exhibit in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

Benga and the other Africans eventually performed in a military-style fashion, imitating that of the American Indians at the Exhibition.

At the behest of Grant, a prominent eugenicist, the zoo director William Hornaday placed Ota Benga displayed in a cage with the chimpanzees, then with an orangutan named Dohong, and a parrot, and labeled him The Missing Link, suggesting that in evolutionary terms Africans like Ota Benga were closer to apes than were Europeans.

A member of the Mbuti people, Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Belgian Congo.

* Ota Benga Folk Opera, 2010 recording of a suite of songs based on the life of Ota Benga and the history of Congo

Benga ( second from left ) and the Batwa in St. Louis

In 1980, Taylor and his passenger Benga Johansson won 4 races, and finished on the podium in all seven events.

* Ota Benga, Congolese man put on display in the Bronx Zoo

In 1906, as Secretary of the New York Zoological Society, he lobbied to put Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy, on display alongside apes at the Bronx Zoo.

Most of the electronic music Benga release is based on his early experiments of Reggae, Shambo, blues and rock.

The island was later acquired by Spain in 1843, as a result of an arrangement made by J. J. Lerena y Barry with Benga king Bonkoro I. Bonkoro I died in 1846 and was succeeded by his son Bonkoro II, but due to rivalries on the island, Bonkoro II moved to Sao Tome, and Munga I ruled in Corisco 1848 to 1858, his son Munga II taking over, and meeting the explorer Iradier in the 1870s.

William Hornaday, the Bronx Zoo director, considered the exhibit as a valuable spectacle for his visitors, supported by Madison Grant as Secretary of the New York Zoological Society, who lobbied to put Ota Benga on display alongside apes at the Bronx Zoo.

The similarities between Ota Benga and Ishi, the sole remaining member of a Native American tribe, who was displayed in California around the same period – including the subsequent publication of a book on the subject by the descendants of the scientist involved – have been observed.

* The Brooklyn-based band Pinataland have a song titled " Ota Benga's Name " on their album Songs from the Forgotten Future Volume 1, which tells the story of Ota Benga.

The African Pigmy, " Ota Benga.

In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

* March 20 – Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy brought to America as part of a racist exhibition at the Bronx zoo.

Ota Benga, a Congolese Pygmy, was featured at the fair.

* 1982: Jock Taylor ( passenger Benga Johansson )( Windle-Yamaha ) is killed at the Finnish sidecar GP.

* Ota Benga ( c. 1884 – March 20, 1916 ), Congolese pygmy who was featured in an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo alongside an orangutan

Benga and Ohangla are also very popular.

Benga music has been popular since the late 1960s, especially around Lake Victoria.

A number of styles predominate in Kenya including Benga and Reggae have separate categories, and a multitude of Kenyan artists are awarded each year.

However the first report of protein mediated water transport through membranes was by Gheorghe Benga in 1986.

The land route to enter the province is from Luanda through the province of Benga.

Image: Golden-fronted Leafbird ( Chloropsis aurifrons ) at Jayanti, Duars, West Benga W2 Picture 305. jpg | at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.

2008 Eastnor Castle: Thievery Corporation, Trentmoller, Leonard Cohen, The Mighty Boosh, Bill Bailey, Irresistible Force, The Buzzcocks, Beth Orton, Roots Manuva, Ty, David Holmes, The Orb, Lee " Scratch " Perry, Russell Howard, Flying Lotus, Benga, Derrick Carter, Matthew Herbert Big Band, DJ Krush, Hot 8 Brass Band, Fink, Camille.

Sokhna Benga ( Mbengue ) ( born 12 December 1967 Dakar ) is a Senegalese novelist and poet.

Ota Benga, a human exhibit, in 1906.

In 1904, Apaches, Igorots ( from the Philippines ) and the famous Ota Benga were displayed, dubbed as " primitive ", at the Saint Louis World Fair.

Benga shot targets with a bow and arrow, wove twine, and wrestled with an orangutan.

On Monday, September 8, 1906, after just two days, Hornaday decided to close the exhibit, and Benga could be found walking the zoo grounds, often followed by a crowd “ howling, jeering and yelling.

In the late nineties an ex Mighty Dread singer ( Yoba Valombola, known as Benga ), bassist and guitarist came back from Germany with a big influence and eager in change and started an independent label called Big Rat Communication.

Due to the unpopularity of electronic music in Namibia, Yoba released his music only in Europe and America under the name Benga.