The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal ; translated by Noémi Tousignant.

Médicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

237 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Translated from the French.

The wonder drug -- Experimentations without borders -- The new deal of colonial medicine -- The spectacle of eradication -- Race, pentamidine and the individual -- Good citizens and bad brothers -- Yokadouma, Cameroon, November-December 1954 -- "We cried without making a palaver" -- The misfirings of the imperial machine -- The swan song of eradication -- How the drug became useless and dangerous -- Epilogue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.