Session 1: Central and East Africa

Megan Vaughan (Chair), University College London

Nancy Jacobs, Brown University, USA. Not an Ornithologist but the Bird Expert, Nonetheless: Jali Makawa of Central Africa

Lawrence Dritsas, University of Edinburgh, UK, 'Pure Research in Developing Countries’: The Career of Thomas R. Odhiambo

Session 2: South Africa

Rebekah Lee (Chair), Oxford University

Suryakanthie Chetty, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, The Scientific Life of William Anderson Soga

Diana Davis, University of California, Davis, USA, Decolonizing Veterinary History? Reading the Partial Archive of the First South African Veterinarian, Dr. Jotello Soga

Session 3: West Africa

Noémi Tousignant (Chair), University College London

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, University of Texas, Austin, USA. The Very Reverend Professor B.W. Garbrah of Ghana and the Interchangeability of Nuclear Physics from the Soviet Union to the UK

Matthew Daniel Eddy, Durham University, UK, _The False Theories of Anthropologists
Dr Africanus Horton and the Relationship between Race and Climate Science in 19th-Century Sierra Leone_

Session 4: Mauritius and Beyond

Matthew Daniel Eddy (Chair), Durham University, UK

Michael J. Aminoff, University of California, San Francisco, USA. The Man from Mauritius: An Erratic Visionary of Science