"Do We Have a Clear Conscience?": the Shadows Behind the Snowflake

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This November marks sixty years since the arrival of the Snowflake in Barcelona. The hunters sold the then gorilla baby for 15,000 pesetas to the primatologist Jordi Sabater Pi, and transferred him first to Ikunde, the center located a few kilometers from Bata (Equatorial Guinea) that supplied the collections of different institutions linked to the Barcelona City Council, and then to the Catalan capital. He became an icon and an endearing figure…

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Did you also have a photo of the Snowflake in your room? 60 years ago, the arrival of an albino gorilla in Barcelona captivated the city and turned it into a popular icon. But behind that story of collective fury there is also a past linked to colonialism and the capture of an animal in Guinea … The post ‘Cap al vespre’ #4: Snowflake, a symbol of Barcelona with a colonial past appeared first on Crític.