Well me, personally, I am extremely surprised to see Europeans continuing to act as though medical ethics + research subject protections exist everywhere except for the African continent. A truly unprecedented phenomenon, ESPECIALLY in biomedical science! https://twitter.com/rimsarah/status/1245680422614446081

On this topic (spec. about British colonization), @hel4t’s “Africa As A Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950” is very very good. A review:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/5280/reviews/6509/bigon-tilley-africa-living-laboratory-empire-development-and-problem

I also like the paper “Race, populations, and genomics: Africa as laboratory” by @LundyBraun & Evelynn Hammonds which gets into colonial logic of Africans as genetically distinct “populations” (which is taken up as biological foundation for “race”)

PDF:
https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/24566/Race,_populations,_and_genomics_Africa_as_laboratory.pdf;jsessionid=ADA3B25E5B9F278AD92AC97DA1BEF7E7?sequence=1

Also this book about post-WWII French colonial health services + experimental trials for a drug that would protect against sleeping sickness, and was administered on Africans without their consent.

A review
https://twitter.com/aidnography/status/1245805982418165760?s=21 https://twitter.com/aidnography/status/1245805982418165760

Also, and I can’t stress this enough.

DO NOT SLEEP ON THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION.

Philanthrocapitalism functions basically unchecked and there are some questionable discourses being driven by people with outsized political & financial influence https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/6/10/8760199/gates-foundation-criticism