How ACBF is making
a difference in African
innovation and why
your support counts
On 3 December 1967, the first successful human heart transplant
was performed on the African continent, precisely in Cape Town,
South Africa, by Prof Christiaan Neethling Barnard, supported by a
team of medical personnel.
In 2014, five decades later, between several other world firsts in
science and technology, a 24-year-old African invented the Cardiopad,
a touch screen medical gadget that makes it possible to collect the
parameters of heart patients in remote areas and send them instantly
for analysis and prescription by specialists in urban hubs. He is a Cameroonian engineer, Marc Arthur Zang. In Nigeria, the rapidly expanding
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) company, built by ingenious entrepreneur, Innocent Chukwuma, has produced over 10,000 quality, durable
fit-for-the-terrain and fuel-economic cars in Nigeria