as partners, where we can actually share and also share their benefit, i mean, back to the communities. so it s not about charity. it s about doing something that s absolutely necessary because that s the way it should be, otherwise, we all lose, as dr ambros wong from the university of cape town in humint human genetics said. all right. so we ve got that clear. but you mentioned something there about the brain drain. you were born in cameroon where you studied, you also studied in nigeria. then you started research in malaria, and that led you to harvard university, where you spent about ten years. now you ve gone back to nigeria to set up this early detection centre for pandemics. so what do you hope to achieve with doing this? what we re hoping to achieve is to set up a platform in africa where africans can come and express their given talent. we know that africans are brilliant and we really want to lead because the pandemic, virus and the pathogen, they live with us.
as we are collaborating and contributing and generating the data, that the return on investment that is the benefit of those collaborations should be given back to the communities that provided the dna, that provided the rna. we re basically talking about, let s set a new world order where we can collaborate equitably, where we can collaborate as partners, where we can actually share and also share their benefit. i mean, back to the communities. so it s not about charity. it s about doing something that s absolutely necessary because that s the way it should be, otherwise, we all lose, as dr ambros wong from the university of cape town in humint human genetics, said. all right. so we ve got that clear. but you mentioned something there about the brain drain. you were born in cameroon where you studied, you also studied in nigeria. then you started research in malaria, and that led you to harvard university, where you spent about ten years. now you ve gone back to nigeria to set up this