Already, African scientists had a limited role, which stung Rotimi.

而非洲科学家的参与有限，这一事实刺痛了罗蒂米。

In 2010, the NIH began funding Rotimi's effort to organize a project focused on African genetics.

2010年，美国国立卫生研究院开始资助罗蒂米组织的非洲遗传学项目。

That playing field, Rotimi says, " is not really ever going to be completely level."

罗蒂米说，这种竞争环境“永远都不会是完全平等的。”

But Rotimi quickly realized that an Africa-centric effort had to do more than collect sequences and catalog SNPs.

但罗蒂米很快意识到，以非洲为中心展开研究不仅是收集序列、分类SNP。

Rotimi often wrestles with questions about the women enrolling in his studies.

罗蒂米经常需要解决涉及他研究的女性相关问题。

Rotimi is trying to change that narrative.

罗蒂米正试图改变这种说法。

The 2009 report exposing the paucity of African DNA in genome studies began spreading the alarm Rotimi had been sounding for years.

2009年的报告揭露了基因组研究中缺乏非洲DNA，并开始宣传罗蒂米多年来一直发出的警告。

Born in Benin, Nigeria's fourth-largest city, Rotimi first saw health inequalities in a big way in America.

罗蒂米出生在尼日利亚第四大城市贝宁，他第一次在美国看到了医疗的不平等。

Charles Rotimi first realized the future was passing him by around 2005.

查尔斯·罗蒂米在2005年左右第一次意识到未来正在离他而去。

Rotimi, who is now 61 and considers H3Africa a lifetime achievement, is well aware that politics could sabotage the whole effort.

现年61岁的罗蒂米认为非洲是他一生的成就，他很清楚政治可能会破坏整个努力。

That is partly why Rotimi was so dismayed by the exclusion of Africa from genomics.

这就是为什么罗蒂米对非洲被排除在基因组学之外感到如此沮丧的部分原因。

As Rotimi was appreciating the power of genetic inheritance, scientists were on their way to sequencing the first human genome.

当罗蒂米正沉醉于基因遗传的力量时，科学家们正在对第一个人类基因组进行测序。

And Rotimi, who was leading that collection effort in Africa, had the sick feeling that history was repeating itself.

而在非洲领导负责这项工作的罗蒂米，深忧于历史正在重演。

Rotimi has appealed to the World Bank for help, and a new office for handling grant applications, to be peer-reviewed by Africans, is now operating out of Nairobi, Kenya.

罗蒂米呼吁世界银行提供帮助，另外一个由非洲人同行评议的处理赠款申请的新办事处目前正在肯尼亚内罗毕开展业务。

The Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003-by then, Rotimi was teaching microbiology at Howard University, in Washington, D.C.-sequenced most of a single person's genome.

人类基因组计划于2003年完成，当时罗蒂米正在华盛顿特区的霍华德大学教微生物学——对一个人的大部分基因组进行测序。

When the grants end, the new capacity remains for future scientists, so that everybody doesn't end up like Charles Rotimi, he says, who wanted to stay in Nigeria but couldn't.

当资助结束时，未来科学家的新能力仍然存在，“这样每个人都不会像查尔斯·罗蒂米那样，”他说，“想留在尼日利亚却又无能为力。”

How can I explain that a tool this robust, Rotimi asked himself, is just going to pass by Africa in a way that will exacerbate already bad health conditions in this part of the world?

罗蒂米自问，“我该如何解释，这样一个有力的工具就这样越过非洲，从而加剧非洲已经很糟糕的健康情况？”

Given the vast genetic variation that exists in African genomes, Rotimi says, it is likely that we can find genetic variants that are important to cancer that may not be discovered from other human populations.

“鉴于非洲基因组存在巨大的基因变异，”罗蒂米说，“很可能我们可以找到对癌症很重要的基因变异，而这种变异可能不会在其他人群中被发现。”