[3] The English anthropologist Evans-Pritchard published a useful description of the Bongo in 1929,[4] in which he pointed out how their way of life was systematically destroyed by the Arab slave and ivory traders from the North.
[5] In the 1970s, the cinema advertisement for Silk Cut cigarettes parodying the 1964 film Zulu was supposedly set in "Mbongoland".
[7][8] When called to account, however, Clark denied the comment had any racist overtones, saying it had simply been a reference to the President of Gabon, Omar Bongo.
A spokesperson from Show Racism the Red Card stated that Bloom's remarks were "crude stereotypes that see Britain as a civilised place and overseas as tribal".
"[13] In 2019, the MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi asked the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to apologise for his use of derogatory terms to describe immigrants, citing "towel-head, or Taliban, or coming from bongo-bongo land" as examples of such insults which minority communities receive; though not necessarily ascribing these terms to Johnson, the speech was made in relation to other comments made by him.