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from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
For the past several hundred years, Western science has helped shape the terms on which Europeans encountered and envisioned Africa and Africans. European preoccupations with the germ theory, what Michael Adas has called a European “machine ideology” arising from Western scientific and technological developments, the rise of scientific racism, and the “civilizing mission,” for example, as well as scientific interest in the archaeological, geological, and biological wealth of Africa have all influenced how Westerners have interacted with Africa and Africans. Moreover, belief in their own expertise and in the universal character of science led many Western scientists to believe that they could export Western science unmodified to Africa.
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