INTRODUCTION: 

Africans have been innovators since pre-historic times. The environmental conditions and remoteness of some habitats called for unique intelligence and adaptive skills. These indigenous innovations range from climate prediction, sustainable agricultural practices and sustainable use of resource, engineering and to traditional medicine. There is a wealth of knowledge, practices, innovations and applied technologies that can take Africa to the next level on the global market if harnessed appropriately. The challenges in commercialising African indigenous knowledge (IK products and services) can be attributed to contamination of local systems for the purposes of domination and control under the guise of modernisation.