1879 Magazine Cover Sparks 2016 Apology
A misguided highlighting of the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
The Illustrated London News was the world’s first illustrated weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1842 and ceased publication in 2003.
On the Sept. 6, 1879 issue cover, Lord Beresford’s “Encounter With a Zulu” was depicted. Beresford is shown on horseback, plunging a sword into an opponent on foot.
The black-and-white cover was front and center in a 1989 exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada (ROM) in Toronto, and now, 27 years later, the efforts of the Coalition for the Truth About Africa, an organization formed in reaction to the event, have produced an apology from the institution.
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