Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido make Forbes Africa icons’ list

 

Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Funke Akindele-Bello, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Mr Eazi, Olugbenga Agboola amongst different Nigerians featured on the Forbes ‘100 Innovations, Inventions & Icons From Africa’.

Also, the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Olugbenga Agboola, Genevieve Nnaji, and Swanky Jerry featured on the list.

Forbes stated the listing was once curated from Hollywood exports and Grammy artists to award-winning thoughts that can store the world.

It additionally stated the listing is a way of “celebrating these very ideas, inventions, and influential position fashions that have spelt Africa’s increase over the closing decade”.

The journal on its professional Twitter account, @Forbesafrica, said, “This additionally encompass the award-winning thoughts that had described the African continent and influential position fashions that have spelt Africa’s boom over the closing decade.

Reacting to her inclusion, Ekeinde on her Twitter account @Realomosexy expressed gratitude to Forbes.

She wrote, “Thanks @Forbesafrica for the inclusion in the a hundredth difficulty of Africa’s icon personalities.”

Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist and global improvement specialist who has served seeing that March as Director-General of WTO and the first female and the first African to preserve the office.

Talking about Davido, the e-book described him as ‘one of Africa’s largest musicians’.