Business Opportunities Seen from the Innovation of African Experts

As part of a special focus on African innovation, a list of 40 outstanding African innovators has been developed. We decided to celebrate the creators of these ideas and solution providers. It stems from our belief that Africa’s real wealth is not its soil and resources, but the best ideas in the brain. This list is a proof of faith. It includes Africans from all fields of the African continent.

The innovation process of innovators in Africa is expensive and inefficient. Investors invest in industries with greater resources and profits, while the government pays attention to issues that people care about. Few people are interested in and invest in the innovation of innovators.

Despite these challenges, African innovators are moving forward. As more and more people seek funding to support their ideas, the number of African start-ups is also rising. As an individual on our list, it is time to innovate in Africa.

Zeinou Abdelyamine Agriculture in Algeria

He pioneered an all-natural insecticide or rodent trap with no chemical residues, or bait to be precise. His products use physical principles rather than chemical principles to kill pests, for example, destroy the pest’s digestive system. This series of products won the African Innovation Award.

Ayodeji Adewunmi, Opeyemi Awoyemi & Olalekan Olude ICT industry in Nigeria

Although many people believe that Nigeria’s high unemployment rate is due to a lack of employment opportunities, there is another key issue: closing the gap between talent and opportunity. Three young people built a job site jobberman, headquartered in Lagos, a pan-African online job search engine. There are now more than 1 million employees.

Kunlé Adeyemi Nigerian agriculture.

Makoko, the poorest area of ​​Nigeria’s city in Lagos, has now built a sustainable community with water as part of its central plan. Solar cells made of local materials are on recycled plastic buckets.

Gloria Asare Adu Ghana Electric Power Industry

In Ghana, approximately 65 percent of the rural population depends on the fuel needs of trees. Due to insufficient energy for industrial and personal use, trees have been felled, and the fuel from cooking to a large number of industrial boilers is wood.

Gloria's company implemented the practice of replacing bamboo with bamboo, and successfully launched a series of products in Ghana to promote more ecological awareness and affordable lifestyle. Bamboo products include charcoal, doors, jewelry, garden furniture, handle bamboo pole construction, baskets and other handicrafts.

Anis Aouini and Hassine Labaied Tunisia, renewable resources.

The developed saphonian, essentially a wind turbine, is a revolutionary technology that invented the use of wind energy to solve Africa's energy challenges. It is the cheapest and most environmentally friendly solution provided by wind power generation. By removing some of the most expensive turbine components, such as blades, hubs and gearboxes (accounting for about 50% of the total cost of the unit), and adding sails and a hydraulic system, it has successfully cut manufacturing costs significantly. Unlike other wind power technologies, their innovation is not susceptible to wind turbulence, which helps reduce grid connection costs.

Oluyombo Awojobi Nigerian Doctor

A very crazy person, when the speed of the bicycle wheel reaches 4500 rpm, he uses a centrifuge to separate the red blood cells carrying oxygen from the patient's blood. There are many homemade therapies.

Andrew Bastawrous Kenyan Doctor

According to the WHO report, 16.6% of blindness in Africa is avoidable. For example, cataracts, glaucoma, trachoma and onchocerciasis, if not diagnosed and treated early, can lead to permanent blindness. But because people across the continent lack adequate sanitation facilities, many suffer unnecessary suffering.

And he invented a portable eye examination kit (PEEK), a small diagnostic device, a mobile APP, and any smart phone turned into a pocket optical clinic. It is possible to manage and monitor the treatment of patients, even in the most remote settings.

Elise Rasel Cloete South Africa Agricultural ICT

A creative solution was developed. She released GMP tracking management software in 2014, which captures, stores and data traces of livestock. The animal registration system receives data from animal ear tags, including a unique and verifiable quantity that also presents the animal from its birth to the end of the slaughter-all the details stored in the remote database.

Moctar Dembele & Gerard Niyondiko Burkina Faso and Burundi fight malaria.

According to the World Health Organization report, the African continent accounts for about 85% of the world's malaria cases, and about 90% of the world's malaria deaths are in Africa. Children under five account for 85%. Local doctors in Burkina Faso and Burundi have created anti-malarial soaps and locally sourced Chinese medicines to help reduce the burden of malaria in Africa. Compared with traditional anti-malaria drugs, soap is very cheap: one piece costs about 0.50 US dollars (CFA 300), while the cost of malaria treatment is as high as 16.60 US dollars (CFA 10000).

Haitham Desoky Egypt ICT

He invented a touch sticker that can be pasted on the surface of any flat object and it can become a touchpad.

Armand Diangiend Congolese musician

Self-taught musicians founded the Black Symphony Orchestra in Kinshasa.

Neil Du Preez South Africa Transport

Invented a hybrid, energy-saving, environmentally friendly and recyclable three-wheeled taxi, which is very popular in South Africa.

Nicolaas Duneas & Nuno Pires South Africa Medical

The treatment of orthopedic injuries is still very inefficient. It is very expensive in most of sub-Saharan Africa, and amputation is often the only option for those who suffer unfortunate fractures. They have developed the osteoblastic bone matrix (OBM), which has revolutionary therapeutic potential for bone injury.

Their product is the world's first injectable artificial treatment of bone injury, using regenerative bio-implants to help heal bone injury quickly, safely and effectively. OBM contains naturally extracted bone growth protein, which is 5 times cheaper than other similar products.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe Nigeria ICT

The research conducted by Professor Ekekwe creates artificial organs such as the retina, cochlea and brain. Akikewe is a pioneer in African technology.

Andrew Forbes South Africa R&D and Development

He is the leading developer of flame lenses, the first equipment to use air to focus high-power lasers, usually used to cut and weld metals or create very high temperatures for energy production. Glass and mirrors made of traditional lenses can be used as high-energy laser beams, but because the flame lens uses air, it has almost no cost.

Thereze Izay Congo ICT

The founder of the Congolese Commanding Traffic Robot.

Captain Abubakar Surajo Imam Nigeria Infrastructure Construction

This colonel invented an anti-theft fence and was commended by the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Johan Jonker & Pettie Petzer South Africa Infrastructure Construction

Invented a hippo bucket, a barreled object with a lid, which can easily transport and sleep 90 liters, effectively solving the problem of water shortage in poverty-stricken areas in Africa.

Kago Kagichiri & Toni Maraviglia Kenyan Education

Su Kahumbu-Stephanou Kenya ICT

The inventor of Icow software, App.

icow enables farmers to access information, agricultural education tools and other services through mobile phones. It has several features, including the world's first mobile cow calendar, which helps farmers to track the heat cycle of their cows. This ensures the health of the cow and the maximum benefit of production-one calf a year plus 308 days of milk. In addition, icow features, contact farmers' agricultural experts, veterinarians, a virtual market, and SMS function to provide agricultural education services. With the mobile phone penetration rate now exceeding 80% in Africa, today, there are 42,000 farmers in the icow database. icow has won multiple awards.