High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Carl-Heinz Shell is a renowned South African author and professor of African Studies. He was born (1949) in the Cape Province of South Africa. He currently lives in the Western Cape with his wife Sandy Rowoldt Shell who is the head of the African Studies Library at University of Cape Town. Professor Shell has attended more than 41 international workshops where he has delivered papers on several topics but notably on Slavery, Islam and HIV/AIDS. In September 2004 he delivered the keynote address at the AGM of SANTA (SA National Tuberculosis Association) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa with a talk entitled Infectious diseases in South Africa: HIV/AIDS and TB, some statistical trends . He has also appeared on in Washington, D.C., where he addressed both the House Select Committee on African affairs and the House Select Committee on International Relations on the global Aids pandemic. Professor Shell obtained his undergraduate and Honours degrees at University of Cape Town in the 1970s.