The following people provided invaluable inspiration in a variety of ways for this work: John McClendon III, Ph.D., a Michigan State University, MSU, professor who specializes in the philosophy of race and social and political philosophy; Everet Green, Ph.D., professor of African philosophy and convener of Humanitas – the Africana Ethical Society Program; Raymond DeVries, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan; and Robyn Bluhm, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Philosophy and Lyman Briggs College at MSU. Our collaboration with Raymond and Robyn was particularly vital in so many ways – we thank them for their willingness to think with us about research ethics and related topics. Also, we recognize the role of the MSU Alliance for African Partnership, which provided Iyioke and O’Rourke with Transforming Institutions Strategic Grant in 2018. That assistance helped facilitate conversation around a university-wide Research Ethics Board for the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. It was part of the initial efforts aimed at developing a set of protocols for what has continued to be our culturally sensitive research ethics conversation. In addition, we owe our gratitude to the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program. This program brought together like-minded scholars at the University of Cape Town, University of South Africa, etc., to join in respectively exploring topics such as “Collaborative Research in African Bioethics and the Impact of COVID-19” and, “Indigenizing and Diversifying Research Ethics in African Knowledge Systems and Practices.” Finally, we are grateful to the African Center for Disease Control and its Ethics Working Group for contributing to the project, “Developing an Afro-centric Framework for Health Research Ethics During Epidemics/pandemics in Africa,” in which some of our contributors participated.