Surfacing the underside of resilient colonial researches in Africa, this paper develops on scholarly concerns that the word ‘research’ conjures up dirtiness for Africans consistently subjected to exploitative research since the colonial era. It also argues that researches since colonial times have victimised Africans not only in the physical sense, when they are experimented on, but also in the symbolic sense when their cultures, social institutions and economic institutions have been demonised and destroyed. Arguing for the contextualisation of researches within human rights and socio-legal parameters the paper introduces socio-legal and economic perspectives to research processes. In this paper, experimentation does not only include laboratory experiments; rather experiment is interpreted broadly to include conducting trials of economic, ideological, political, cultural and religious projects on the peoples of the continent. Thus, it argues for the need to ensure that researchers do not only observe ethics but also comply with laws; and not only an ethical, but also a legal dimension to research is proffered.

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