This passage is from Into the House of the Ancestors by Karl Maier (Wiley).

Unlike those in some other major research centers in Africa, the scientists in Bamako are Africans, mostly Malians, but with a sprinkling of researchers from neighboring African countries. This is not a case of Europeans and Americans taking a mobile First World lab and setting it up in the African bush. _____ it is a center of scientific excellence, which is administered by Malians, and where the most immediate benefits fall to Malians, though the ramifications are invaluable to Africa and the entire world.