The yearly list by Jeune Afrique, a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine has names of people from different domains like politicians, business people, human rights activists, artistes and players.
The magazine says that it was not an easy exercise to select 50 people among over one billion people from 54 African countries. Among factors they considered include their universal visibility.
The factors also include ways they are followed on social media, particularly on Twitter and ways their statements or activities are received outside their countries and their role in political-related decision making.
The 56-year-old Mushikiwabo who has been Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister since 2009, is known for raising the voice in explaining the vision Rwanda has chosen and that Africa needs self-dependency.
The only Rwandan on the list, Mushikiwabo has 259,000 followers on Twitter and her posts are mostly debated on.
On the list, the magazine did not include Heads of State and their wives. Also, they did not include Africans living outside the continent, though they might be doing activities developing the continent or their countries.
The first on the list is Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian business magnate, investor, and owner of the Dangote Group. The second is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. The third is Mostafa Terrab, the CEO of the Moroccan state-owned phosphate-mining company OCP since 2006. And the fourth is Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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