For this edition we welcome paper submissions within any of these five interdisciplinary sub-topics: - Sub-topic 1: Health care, space and materiality in Africa, past and present - Sub-topic 2: The quest for healing as a driver in political mobilization and development - Sub-topic 3: Mental health and disability - Sub-topic 4: Health system challenges for donor darlings: perspectives from the ground -Sub-topic 5: Childhood malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa Deadline for the submission of abstracts (max. 500 words): 1 June 2017.