Access to remains of Bambuti baby withdrawn by London museum

Nadifa Mohamed presents Channel 4’s Britain’s Human Zoos about travelling shows with Africans and Asians as exhibits, including one in 1904 that included the stillborn baby’s mother. Photograph: Channel 4

The remains of a stillborn Bambuti baby have been removed from a museum’s catalogue of items that can be viewed for medical research after criticism from a Booker prize-shortlisted author.

Novelist Nadifa Mohamed is the presenter of an upcoming Channel 4 documentary examining the history of “human zoos” in Britain, in which African and Asian people were put on display to the wider public in a practice which is now deemed to have been deeply racist.