As we return with our second series of Genetic Sounds, in this first episode we discuss the background of the African Society of Human Genetics, and Equity in African research. A conversation with Professor Ambroise Wonkam, President of the African Society of Human Genetics, Human Genetics Scientist Professor Michele Ramsay, based at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, Dr Rokhaya Ndiaye, from the Senegal Human Genetics Society, and Dr Vicky Nembaware, current secretory for the African Society of Human Genetics.