Why does the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle have an exhibit of an east African village?
From a Zoo press release (February 2001):
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation generously funded African Village, which opens this May. The exhibit will immerse visitors in a representation of a rural village in East Africa. The village will contain both traditional (thatch-roofed) and contemporary (metal-roofed) structures, including a community pavilion (palaver hut) for educational programming and special events, a primary school house, a teacher's house and a traditional Kikuyu house. The Kikuyu are the largest ethnic group in Kenya.
At least there aren't any actual Kikuyu on display.
Photo credit: windflowers43
