President Paul Kagame has been listed among the world’s most influential people ranked the 48th position and becoming the 2nd on the African continent.
On the African continent Jacob Zuma, the South African president emerged number one leader who has had more influence in Africa but also ranked 36th most influential leader in the world.
From pop stars and activists to religious leaders and heads of state, a UK based news paper New Statesman carried out its annual survey and listed the people doing the most to shape the world.
The New Statesman survey indicates that many people in the world have come up to work towards a better world but the most influential of them all in their respective sociaty settings were only listed.
Kagame having moved from the 49th position in the last year’s ranking, the paper pointed him out due to his relentless efforts to transform Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide into one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.
Under Kagame’s stewardship ended the massacres, advocating for African development made him a a prominent figure to the international community.
The same list of 50 most influential people in the world ranked German Chancellor as the number one most influential person in the world.
The paper suggests that the answer to that question if euro zone is doomed depends on Angela Merkel as the head of government of the largest and richest country in the European Union.
She is said to the solution provider in an effort to convince her parliament endorse the proposal to bailout Greece and other euro members currently hit by the financial crisis.
Other people include David Petraeus the Director of United States intelligence agency CIA, Ai Wei wei the Chinese artist whose Sunflower Seeds filled the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern until May, Tim Cook who inherited Apple deceased CEO Steve Jobs and Barack Obama USA president in their descending order.
Kagame emerging
After serving as head of intelligence in Uganda, Kagame led a guerrilla group Rwandan Patriotic Front that stopped the 1994 Genocide, he emerged a hero to lead a group that liberated Rwanda.
As the chairman of Rwanda Patriotic Front-Inkotanyi, Kagame has achieved great progress- under his stewardship, Rwanda emerged the most transforming economies both in Africa and the world.
Rwanda is reported as the second-highest growth rates in Africa, averaging 10 per cent from 1994 to 2000, and 6 per cent since then.
Poverty has also decreased, from 70 per cent in 1994 to 57 per cent in 2007.
Kagame has been critical of the United Nations and has advocated new approaches to development in Africa.
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