Let's get people back at the centre of innovation

Africa has numerous challenges such as physical infrastructure, energy and housing deficit, access to clean water, low literacy levels, low insurance penetration, lack of financial inclusion, rising cases of non-communicable diseases, just to mention a few.

This should be good news for the many local innovators, who have discovered that these challenges can be overcome without the same level of effort and investment the western world had invested in solving similar problems.