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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER <strong>15</strong>, 2017<br />
Prez Akufo-Addo, Patrick<br />
Awuah, others among Mag’s<br />
100 Most Influential Africans<br />
GHANA’S PRESI-<br />
DENT, Nana<br />
Addo Dankwa<br />
Akufo-Addo, has<br />
been named among<br />
2017 New African Mag’s 100 Most<br />
Influential Africans.<br />
Chief Brand Officer for Uber,<br />
Bozoma Saint John, makes the list<br />
alongside other Ghanaians, including<br />
Founder of Ashesi University<br />
and winner of 2017 Qatar’s WISE<br />
Prize for Education,Patrick<br />
Awuah; Fred Swaniker of African<br />
Leadership Academy; and Edward<br />
Kobina Enninful, the first black<br />
and male Editor of British Vogue.<br />
Also making the list are feminist<br />
and top model of the moment<br />
– Adwoa Aboah and actor Idris<br />
Elba.<br />
The New African magazine<br />
published its 100 Most Influential<br />
Africans of 2017. The list gives a<br />
fine blend of Africans who are<br />
making an impact on the continent<br />
and people of African descent<br />
who are also excelling in their respective<br />
fields.<br />
The end-of-year compilation<br />
which the magazine started five<br />
years ago pools together persons<br />
who made news headlines in a particular<br />
year.<br />
Personalities across thirty-one<br />
African countries made the list.<br />
Nineteen from Anglophone Africa<br />
and the remaining from the Francophone<br />
side. The 2017 list also<br />
bridged the usually wide gender<br />
gap with 42 women (the<br />
highest since 2013) as<br />
against 58 men.<br />
Full List (Nationality<br />
/Descent in Brackets)<br />
Politics and Public Service<br />
Amina J Mohammed – UN Deputy Secretary<br />
General. (Nigeria)<br />
George Weah – Football legend and aspiring President<br />
(Liberia)<br />
Yemi Osinbajo – Vice President (Nigeria)<br />
Alpha Condé – President (Guinea)<br />
Mohammed VI – King (Morocco)<br />
Justice David Maraga – Supreme Court Judge<br />
(Kenya)<br />
Nana Akufo-Addo – President (Ghana)<br />
Sophia Abdi Noor – Politician (Kenya)<br />
Akinwumi Adesina – President Africa Development<br />
Bank; Winner – World Food Prize 2017<br />
(Nigeria)<br />
Vanessa Moungar – Director of Gender AfDB<br />
(Chad)<br />
Vera Songwe – New head – UN Economic Commission<br />
for Africa (Cameroon)<br />
Moussa Faki Mahamat – African Union Commission<br />
Chairperson (Chad)<br />
Paul Kagame – President (Rwanda)<br />
Pravin Gordhan – Political stalwart, former Finance<br />
Minister (South Africa)<br />
Sibeth Ndiaye – Advisor to French President<br />
Macron (Senegal)<br />
Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus – new and first African<br />
WHO Director General (Ethiopia)<br />
Bola Tinubu – Former Lagos State governor<br />
(Nigeria)<br />
Prof. Ruth Oniang’o – Nutritionist, Africa Food<br />
Prize Winner (Kenya)<br />
Business and Finance<br />
Aliko Dangote – Successful business<br />
mogul Africa’s richest man (Nigeria)<br />
Issad Rebrab – Founder and CEO, Cevital (Algeria)<br />
Isabel dos Santos – Billionaire businesswoman former<br />
Chairperson Sonangol (Angola)<br />
Mohamed Al Kettani – CEO Attijariwafa Bank<br />
(Morocco)<br />
Lionel Zinsou – creator of the Africa-France club<br />
(Benin)<br />
Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu – Minister of State<br />
for Petroleum Resources (Nigeria)<br />
Makhtar Diop – World Bank Vice-President for<br />
Africa (Senegal)<br />
Abdoulaye Coulibaly – Founder of the Bamako<br />
Forum (Mali)<br />
Abebe Selassie – Head of IMF African Department.<br />
(Ethiopia)<br />
James Mworia – MD and CEO of Centum Investments<br />
(Kenya)<br />
Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais – Founder and<br />
CEO, Quantum Global (Angola)<br />
Mohammed Dewji – CEO MeTL Group (Tanzania)<br />
Strive Masiyiwa – Founder and Chairman of<br />
Econet Wireless (Zimbabwe)<br />
Alioune Gueye – Entrepreneur (Senegal)<br />
Moulay Hafid – Minister of Trade and Industry<br />
(Morocco)<br />
Dr Sahar Nasr – Minister of Investment and International<br />
Cooperation (Egypt)<br />
Olga Johnson – Secretary General of the Foundation<br />
for Energy (Benin)<br />
Elon Musk – Founder: PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and<br />
OpenAI (South Africa)<br />
Civil Society and Activism<br />
Haben Girma – Deafblind Harvard Law law graduate<br />
and disability rights activist<br />
(Eritrea/Ethiopia/US)<br />
Patrick ‘PLO’ Lumumba – Defence lawyer and<br />
anti-corruption champ (Kenya)<br />
Dr Fatima Akilu – Psychologists and founder<br />
Neem Tree Foundation Rehabilitating Boko<br />
Haram victims (Nigeria)<br />
Biram Dah Abeid – Awardin-winning anti-modern<br />
slavery hero (Mauritania)<br />
Ikponwosa Ero – UN’s Human Rights Council Independent<br />
Expert on the Enjoyment of Human<br />
Rights by Persons with Albinism. (Nigeria)<br />
Kumi Naidoo – Co-founder, Africans Rising<br />
(South Africa)<br />
Archbishop Stanley Ntagali – takes controversial<br />
stand on same-sex marriage (Uganda)<br />
Jaha Dukureh – Founder Safe Hands – Anti FGM<br />
and Child Marriage (Gambia)<br />
Science, Tech & Innovation<br />
Nunu Ntshingila – Head, Facebook Africa (South<br />
Africa)<br />
Dr Tebello Nyokong – Award-winning Chemist<br />
(South Africa)<br />
Adamu Waziri – Founder – Bino and Fino African<br />
children’s TV and YouTube animations<br />
Anne-Marie Imafidon – child progidy, co-founder<br />
of Stemettes for young women in science and tech<br />
(Nigeria/UK)<br />
Iyinoluwa ‘E’ Aboyeji – Founder, Flutterwave<br />
(Nigeria)<br />
Sara Menker – Gro Intelligence (Ethiopia)<br />
Jelani Aliyu – Design of GM’s electric Chevrolet<br />
Volt car, now new Director General of Nigeria’s<br />
National Automotive Design and Development<br />
Council (Nigerian)<br />
Dr Helena Ndume – one the world’s most prolific<br />
ophthalmologists has restored sights for over<br />
30000 people for free working with See International<br />
(Namibia)<br />
Yvonne Mburu – co-founder of Med in Africa<br />
(Kenya)<br />
Rebecca Enonchong – Founder AppsTech<br />
(Cameroon)<br />
Professor Yaye Kène-Gassama Dia – A scientist of<br />
many firsts (Senegal)<br />
Bozoma Saint John – Chief Brand Officer – Uber<br />
(Ghana)<br />
B<br />
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• TO BE CONTINUED<br />
•Chidinma Ekile,<br />
Nigeria singer<br />
I was born blind – Chidinma<br />
NIGERIAN SINGER and MTN<br />
Project Fame winner, Chidinma<br />
Ekile, aka Ms Kedike, has revealed<br />
she was born blind.<br />
The star singer, in an interview<br />
with Guardian, said, according to<br />
her parents, she just could not see<br />
for some months.<br />
Chidinma said she would love<br />
to be seen more as someone who<br />
does a lot for visually-impaired<br />
kids and young people as she can<br />
relate with their situation.<br />
She said, “I was born blind. I<br />
just couldn’t see for some months.<br />
Since I sang about it, I felt the<br />
“For some years<br />
now, I think like<br />
two years or thereabout.<br />
I’ve been<br />
using my foundation<br />
to do quite a<br />
lot of things.<br />
need to help kids that find<br />
themselves in such situations or<br />
even worse. So every time I<br />
travel to these places, I try to extend<br />
a hand of love to these<br />
children.<br />
“For some years now, I think<br />
like two years or thereabout. I’ve<br />
been using my foundation to do<br />
quite a lot of things. I’ve been<br />
able to take it to some places in<br />
Africa. The last time, I think I<br />
was in Togo and I was able to<br />
do a few things with the SOS<br />
village, I hope to do more of<br />
that.”
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