Utajua Hujui

Just One Prick Won’t Hurt: Human Experimentation in Africa

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Unsterilized Needles. Concentration Camps. And Arsenic. Put them together and what have you got? The Sleeping Sickness Experiments in Tanzania in the early 20th Century and a WHOLE BUNCH of racism.

Digressions include MK Ultra, Inflatable Tube Men, Dexter’s Lab, and PEAK coloniser energy

S/O to Cartoon Network for letting me use some Dexter Audio :) (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wR9udglI8)

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  • Edna Bonhomme, When Africa was a German laboratory, Al Jazeera (2020)
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  • Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief (2019)
  • Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza, Here is How Africa Was Used as a Laboratory for Germany During the Sleeping Sickness Epidemics, The African Exponent (2020)
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    Utajua HujuiBy Aileen Waitaaga Kimuhu
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