Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethics

Tangwa, Godfrey B.

doi:10.1007/s11017-017-9402-3

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“…A view that has also been articulated by other researchers in Africa [ 36 , 37 ]. In one case, An African researcher said that without international health research, researchers in Africa, would be sitting all day in their offices, ‘reading newspapers’ instead of doing research [ 38 ].…”

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“…Recognition of this mutual benefit is important for international health research partnerships in Africa. International health research has often been portrayed as a form of development aid or altruistic philanthropy, where the receiver is expected to show some gratitude to the giver [ 37 , 39 ]. This has led to situations whereby HIC collaborators had said to their African collaborators that they were only hired to do the research and not to be involved in key decision making activities [ 38 ].…”

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“…A theme is further discussed below. The inequitable nature of international health research collaborations have led to calls for funders of international health research to build capacity for health research in Africa as well as for HICs partners to engage with their African collaborators in ways that build mutual trust and respect [ 37 , 39 – 43 ]. In the interviews, we asked the researchers how these fears of exploitation may be assuaged.…”

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Equity in international health research collaborations in Africa: Perceptions and expectations of African researchers

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Introduction and methodAfrica is currently host to a number of international genomics research and biobanking consortia, each with a mandate to advance genomics research and biobanking in Africa. Whilst most of these consortia promise to transform the way international health research is done in Africa, few have articulated exactly how they propose to go about this. In this paper, we report on a qualitative interviewing study in which we involved 17 genomics researchers in Africa. We describe their perceptions and expectations of international genomics research and biobanking initiatives in Africa.ResultsAll interviewees were of the view that externally funded genomics research and biobanking initiatives in Africa, have played a critical role in building capacity for genomics research and biobanking in Africa and in providing an opportunity for researchers in Africa to collaborate and network with other researchers. Whilst the opportunity to collaborate was seen as a benefit, some interviewees stressed the importance of recognizing that these collaborations carry mutual benefits for all partners, including their collaborators in HICs. They also voiced two major concerns of being part of these collaborative initiatives: the possibility of exploitation of African researchers and the non-sustainability of research capacity building efforts. As a way of minimising exploitation, researchers in Africa recommended that genuine efforts be made to create transparent and equitable international health research partnerships. They suggested that this could be achieved through,: having rules of engagement, enabling African researchers to contribute to the design and conduct of international health projects in Africa, and mutual and respectful exchange of experience and capacity between research collaborators. These were identified as hallmarks to equitable international health research collaborations in Africa.ConclusionGenomics research and biobanking initiatives in Africa such as H3Africa have gone some way in defining aspects of fair and equitable research collaborations in Africa. However, they will need to strive at achieving equitable health research collaborations if they truly aim at setting a gold standard for how international health research should be conducted in Africa.

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Equity in international health research collaborations in Africa: Perceptions and expectations of African researchers

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“…Scholarship across Africa is still largely dominated by Western thought and a canon that has been inherited from the colonial academy. In one of the articles in this special issue, Godfrey Tangwa reminds us of the painful period in the 1970s and 1980s when African philosophy was under siege by those who thought that the very notion of such a thing as African philosophy was unthinkable [1]. For decades African philosophers were required to expend much of their energy merely justifying their existence.…”

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“…The first article in this issue was presented by Godfrey Tangwa as the keynote address at the conference, and was entitled 'Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethics' [1]. Tangwa argues that African thought is marginalized in the global medical research ethics discourse, which remains dominated by Western conceptions, theories, frameworks, and paradigms.…”

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