I hope that in a few years, young African scientists will have well equipped research infrastructures, so they will not hesitate to return. Our doctoral schools are already structured, we have regional doctoral colleges. So we create things that will attract our young people. We must be conscious that they won’t all return. But those who will have opportunities to return will take them. And more important, those who won’t return will continue to cooperate with their countries.

Interviewed by Jean-Bruno Tagne