This document summarizes innovations and innovators from Africa. It discusses ancient African innovations in construction engineering like the pyramids, which were built without modern machinery over 20 years. It also mentions early developments in writing with Egyptian hieroglyphics as the first known alphabet over 3200 years ago. In medicine, it notes that many modern medical treatments were first used in Africa centuries ago, including surgery, vaccination, and dental work. The document then profiles several African innovators, including Dr. Bennet Omalu who discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Dr. Soni Oyekan with 14 patents in oil refining, and Dr. Thomas Mensah's work in nanotechnology and fiber optics. It closes