Sarah Baartman: a life, a body, a battle over memory

Sarah Baartman’s body was used by European scientists to promote racist ideas that endured for generations. A new essay in Griffith Review revisits her extraordinary and tragic story — from her exploitation as a colonial spectacle in Europe, to the continuing debates over how she should be remembered today.

• Guest: Writer, Sisonke Msimang, author, Griffith Review Essay, Defending the dead: The many afterlives of Sarah Baartman
• Producer: Ali Benton and Ann Arnold