1 Introduction -- Part I: African Experts and Science in the Cape -- 2 African Farmers and Medical Plant Experts -- 3 African Naturalists, Collectors, and Taxidermists -- Part II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories -- 4 Gender, Class and Competition -- 5 Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection -- 6 Barbers Forging Scientific Practices and Theories -- Part III: Negotiating Belonging through Science -- 7 Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers Supremacy and Land Rights -- 8 Barbers World of Birds as a Space of Gender Equality -- 9 Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections -- 10 The fragments that are left behind. .