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By Sophie Anmuth, Léonce Bitariho, Erin Conroy, Frida Dahmani, Charlie Hamilton, Elissa Jobson, Parselelo Kantai, Mwaura Kimani, Jana Marais, Olivier Monnier, Nicholas Norbrook, Divine Ntaryike, Tolu Ogunlesi, Crystal Orderson, Oheneba Ama Nti Osei, Nadia Rabbaa, Ricci Shryock, Alex Duval Smith and Marshall Van Valen

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his year, we honour Africa’s rising talent. This is a continent that belongs to the young: two thirds of Africans are under the age of 35. Through extensive surveys of correspondents and contacts we drew up our longlist. Whittling it down to just 50 names was exhausting, but not exhaustive – the debate will continue at theafricareport.com. In compiling the list, we noticed a real drive. From the explosive power of new athletes to the persistence of young turk politicians, there is a marked change in their beliefs: the old ways are not working, and something has to give. Innovators, financiers and businesspeople are a key part of a continent that wants to do things differently.

Mamadou Toure, the founder of Africa 2.0, a group of young Africans in positions of influence, says: “We are all struggling

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every day because of the environment we live and work in. It’s time to step back and say, ‘Let’s change that environment.’”

The Africa Report’s 50 Rising Stars is a testimony to that desire to make Africa work better. The success of Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has helped breathe new life into the Nairobi theatre where she started out (see page 90). Politicians Lobna Jeribi in Tunisia and Amadou Thiam in Mali are redesigning their damaged democracies from the inside. Internet tycoon Sim Shagaya and Shanduka chief executive Phuti Mahanyele ditched successful careers in the US to get involved in the rough and tumble of African corporate life, and neither regrets it.

There are roughly equal numbers of women and men on the list. This is purely accidental, and offers proof that excellence knows no boundaries. ●

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Omar Victor Diop Beauty in the lens of the beholder Raphaël FouRnieR/DiveRgence

The Senegalese photographer battles contemporary issues like immigration. He re-interprets portraits of famous African migrants to Europe during the 15th-18th centuries, such as Girodet’s painting of the former Senegalese slave Jean-Baptiste Belley, who become a member of the convention that initiated the French Revolution.

“It is often treated as something new,” he says, “but these two continents have always interacted.” The Studio of the Vanities is an ongoing portraiture series that features a specific modern West Africa aesthetic.

For this Diop gathers most of his materials from Dakar markets and uses local tailors to do much of the sewing.

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Ganzeer Kenya

Gachao Kiuna

Ganzeer is perhaps the most famous Egyptian graffiti artist and his art is shown all over the world. But he refuses the label: he is an author, installation artist, painter, speaker and videographer, who started street art at the very beginning of the 2011 uprising. And he is still telling the world about Tahrir Square: “After the uprising, passers-by were very enthusiastic about anti-government graffiti, but with the Military Council or al-Sisi nowadays, onlookers and security forces alike have made street art difficult and dangerous.”

For the 32-year-old artist, who chose his pseudonym Ganzeer (bicycle chain in Arabic) as a metaphor for the artist’s role in society, art is participatory, and deals with the immediate struggles of its public.

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elsie Kanza Standing up to terrorists is all in a day’s work

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The CEO of Kenyan infrastructure investment firm TransCentury, Kiuna is one of the youngest executives in the country – of one of the most influential companies to boot, associated with close friends of Kenya’s former president Mwai Kibaki. Started as an investment club 15 years ago, TransCentury has evolved into a firm operating in 14 countries with a market capitalisation of US$77m. Since 2008 Kiuna has overseen the transformation, including listing on the NSE. Identifying the “chronic undersupply” of power and transport infrastructure in Africa, TransCentury’s investment choices are helping the continent become more efficient.

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Revolutionary vision that keeps provoking

Armed with Masters in both finance and development economics, Kanza now exhorts African politicians to seize the current window of opportunity and diversify their economies. She does this as Africa director at the World Economic Forum, which organises a yearly conference – this year defying the terrorists in Abuja – helping to connect top African policymakers with their global counterparts. Prior to that she worked as personal assistant and economic adviser to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. the africa report

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Phuti Mahanyele

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From township to the top flight Phuti Mahanyele’s CV reads like a fairytale, from humble beginnings in Soweto to degrees from the US and UK. Born and bred in Dobsonville township, Mahanyele says it was her parents’ strong commitment to her education that inspired her to work hard.

Mahanyale joined Shanduka in 2004 as head of energy, and by 2010 was appointed CEO – one of the youngest black women to head up a multi-billion rand black business empire.

It was South Africa’s deputy president and former chairman of Shanduka, Cyril Ramaphosa, who asked her to join the company.

Previously she worked at the Development Bank of South Africa.

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We are driven by a zeal for change and an understanding that (our) democracy was just a façade”

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Mehdi Jomâa

The coming man in Tunisia has no political affiliation even if he is the prime minister; with his team of technocrats Jomâa aims to put the transition on course. Putting aside his career with Total France to join the government of Ali Larayedh, he was chosen to lead the country as the ‘consensus candidate’ in December 2013 by civil society and political parties.

Security and the economic crisis are his main priorities to calm social upheaval before general and presidential elections, planned from October.

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Ushering in an era of economic and social stability

Sébastien KadioMorokro, 34, has been CEO of Pétro Ivoire, Côte d’Ivoire’s thirdlargest fuel retailer, for four years. He took over from his father, who founded the company in 1994, after the latter retired.

He has diversified the company’s operations, especially in the gas sector, which now represents 20% of revenue.

In Côte d’Ivoire, Pétro Ivoire is one of the top two companies in the distribution of butane gas, and it plans to expand its operations in Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal.

Kadio-Morokro says he wants to turn Pétro Ivoire into a performancecentred company.

Hence the opening of its capital to investment funds, and a listing on the Paris-based NYSE Euronext stock exchange in 2011.

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Fuel scion taking the family business to the next level

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Amadou Thiam, Mali The Ghana-educated diplomat’s son is Mali’s youngest MP. aged 29 when he was elected, he heads a new generation of politicians shaking up the national assembly from within.

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Kenya

Phanice Mogaka Champion of African integration and women in the workplace Adviser to Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, Mogaka’s priority is practical economic integration.

She is the unsung hero behind the arrival of Nigerian cement magnate Aliko Dangote in the Kenyan market, “even though I have received all kinds of threats from vested interests in our local cement industry”, she says. She also ensured that the Nigerian president visited Kenya early on in Kenyatta’s tenure.

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WOMEN AND WEALTH Breaking through the glass ceiling, women are changing the financial landscape all over Africa.

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Patience Akyianu

Piano prodigy who arrived late and made up for lost time

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After joining Barclays in Accra as finance director in 2008, she quickly made her mark and became managing director in October 2013, the first woman to hold such a post in Ghana.

Baseball cap perched atop a mane of dreadlocks, Yirga effortlessly demonstrates his mastery of the keyboard.

His hands – deemed too small to play the piano by one music teacher – fly across the keys as he switches from a traditional jazz riff to an improvisation on a theme from the golden age of Ethiopian music. Yirga is now a regular fixture at Mama’s Kitchen, a cocktail lounge on Addis Ababa’s fashionable Bole Road.

He came to music late, first touching a musical instrument at the age of 16, but is now hailed as the great new hope of Ethiopian jazz. Yirga’s first solo album, Guzo, or ‘journey’ in Amharic, met with critical and commercial acclaim.

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Jo-Ann Pohl

A banker with global reach

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Starting her career as a performance consultant at Barclays in 2003, Pohl worked across Africa, the UK and Dubai before being appointed chief financial officer, Africa at Standard Chartered in 2012.

Sim Shagaya A global vision combining shops and clicks

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With his Harvard MBA, Sim Shagaya could have waited patiently to work his way up the corporate ladder; a Google gig overseeing the internet giant’s Africa market hinted at such a future. Today he is CEO of a successful billboard advertising firm, as well as two of Nigeria’s leading e-commerce sites, DealDey (discount deals) and Konga (retail). Shagaya’s vision is sophisticated: he thinks online retail in Nigeria is near-uncharted territory, and that retailers will eventually experiment with a blend of brick-and-mortar and e-commerce: “flagship stores” in urban hubs like Lagos and Port Harcourt, with online serving the rest of the country.

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Monica Kalondo

Adviser in high places Managing Director at Stimulus Private Equity, Kalondo serves on the national council of the chamber of commerce.

She has been on the President’s economic advisory council and has been deputy chair of the Public OfficeBearer’s Commission since 2006.

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Mary Wamae

Deal-maker supreme Equity Bank’s 44-year-old company secretary and director of corporate strategy, who joined the firm in 2004, is said to be one of the main deal-makers at the firm and the CEO’s right hand.

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Chakava is co-founder and managing director of Alpha Africa Asset Managers, having previously been the youngest CEO ever appointed to Old Mutual Investment Group.

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Lupita Nyong’o New face of Africa in Hollywood

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The Yale-educated polyglot – fluent in Luo, English, Swahili and Spanish – became an overnight sensation following her Oscar-winning performance in the historical movie 12 Years a Slave, the first for an African actress. Her rise to stardom has given new life to the once-faltering Nairobi-based Phoenix theatre, where she made her acting debut aged 14. As of June 2014, Nyong’o has acquired the rights to produce her first feature film, an adaptation of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel Americanah. She has also been cast for the much-anticipated Star Wars VII, scheduled for release in 2015.

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Jack Nkusi Kayonga

Troubleshooter with a track record

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After turning round the troubled Rwanda Development Bank, where he was CEO from 2005 to 2009, Kayonga has earned the trust of the highest authorities in the country. The youthful investment banker was appointed in late 2013 as the board chairman of Crystal Ventures, the crown jewel of the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front. Kayonga’s appointment is widely seen as an attempt to streamline the investment company’s operations as it strives to operate as a competitive private venture capital fund.

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Chika Unigwe

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Literary sister whose voice carries far

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Pacifique Nininahazwe Energetic defender of human rights

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Igho Sanomi Stellar entrepreneur with time for others

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Nininahazwe, 36, is a fervent preacher of national reconciliation in Burundi. A founder of pro-peace NGO Forum pour la Conscience et le Développement, he has played a key role in federating civil society organisations for greater political weight. He created the ‘Green Friday’ movement, calling for the release of those wrongly imprisoned, which he argues includes Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, jailed for a report that alleged Burundian youths were being trained by paramilitary forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is a long-time member of FORSC, an association of more than 150 groups fighting for human rights in Burundi.

Author of four novels in English and Dutch, Unigwe won the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2012 for On Black Sisters’ Street. Her latest novel, Black Messiah, is a fictional retelling of the life of Olaudah Equiano, the 18th-century slave whose autobiography in 1789 energised the abolitionist movement.

She has been a loud voice in the campaign to pressure the Nigerian government into rescuing the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram.

Igho Sanomi, 39, founded Taleveras in 2004. Today the company is a behemoth, spanning oil and gas, construction and power.

One recent acquisition was a controlling stake in the privatised power company that serves four states in the south of Nigeria. He takes his philanthropy as seriously as he does expanding the frontiers of Taleveras: the Dickens Sanomi Foundation, named for his late father, sponsors writing, music and sports contests, and provides humanitarian relief to disaster victims in Nigeria’s delta region.

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THE RECORD BREAKERS On the field, the court, the track and the road, a new generation of athletes is going for gold.

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Nader Bakkar

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A Salafist who is willing to compromise

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Schoolboy sensation Since being talent-spotted on the streets outside Nouakchott, this 16-year-old footballing prodigy is being tipped as one of the most promising players of his generation.

Nader Bakkar has risen quickly in Islamist politics. The tech-savvy co-founder of Egypt’s biggest Salafist party says his interest in politics started after the 2011 uprising.

A business graduate, the 29-year-old also has a talent for survival.

The Al-Nour party backed Abdel Fattah al-Sisi throughout his overthrow of Mohamed Morsi’s government to widespread criticism – but with the result that Al-Nour has survived. Its top leadership are not languishing in jail or exile, unlike those of the Muslim Brotherhood or more hard-core Salafist groups such as Asala and Jamaa Islamiya.

Bakkar is one of Al-Nour’s media and foreign affairs specialists.

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Rungano Nyoni

Islam Slimani

One in the eye for Russia

Bewitching new film-maker between London and Lusaka

The striker, who plays in the Portuguese premier league, scored the goal that knocked Russia out of the 2014 World Cup and got Algeria to a historic second-round match.

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Nyoni is a writer and director best known for the 2011 short film Mwansa the Great, which picked up a BAFTA nomination in 2012 and a slew of other awards. She co-wrote the screenplay for The Mass of Men, which also won accolades at film festivals in 2013.

Telling the story of an unemployed man, and inspired by the London riots in 2011, it deals with the effects of repression and disillusionment. In May she received funding for her latest project and first feature film, I Am Not a Witch, which charts the tough decisions that face a child exiled from her family for having magical powers. She is also working on two other films – Z1 and Diary of Incidences – and a comedy series based in London called Pre-Life.

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Joel Embiid

Phily’s great hope This 20-year-old basketball player, who plays defence for the Philadelphia 76ers, has the talent that made him No. 3 pick in this year’s NBA Draft, but he is struggling to recover from a serious foot injury.

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Mapaseka Makhanya

Hot-footed superstar

Crowned South African Sportswoman of the Year in 2013, this middledistance runner has her sights set on scooping gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. eritrea

Natnael Berhane Voted African Sportsman of the year in 2013, this record-breaking cyclist became the first African to win the prestigious Tour of Gabon, but he is currently battling a run of bad form, which forced him to pull out of the Tour de France.

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Sakina M’sa A talented designer, Sakina M’sa spent her first seven years living in Comoros, before her family moved to France, where she cut her teeth in the fashion world. She began selling her colourful and geometric work in the French department store Galeries Lafayette and mail-order company La Redoute, before creating a label under her own name and opening a Paris boutique as well as a pop-up store in BHV Marais. But in recent years she has been turning back to her homeland.

Training women from disadvantaged backgrounds in fashion manufacturing skills, M’sa ensures they learn the textile industry back to front before helping them set up their own workshops. In late May 2014 she was patron of the second contemporary art fair in Comoros – introducing a runway show into the busy marketplace in Volo Volo, Moroni.

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From Paris pop-up to vogueing on the catwalks of Volo Volo

The 17-year old’s rise to fame was accompanied by hunger, rape and violence. It was during her four years as a street kid in Kinshasa that Mwanza caught the eye of Canadian producer Kim Nguyen. He cast her as the lead in his 2012 movie Rebelle (‘War Witch’).

Her performance as child soldier, Komona, won her a slough of awards.

In January 2014, she released her autobiography, Survivre pour voir ce jour (Surviving to see this day), a collaboration with Mbepongo Dedy Bilamba. She is now an advocate for the rights of street children in her native DRC.

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Olufemi Terry A sense of comparison Terry, who works at the International Finance Corporation, won the 2010 Caine Prize for his short story ‘Stickfighting Days’ and is working on a novel set in New York in the 1990s.

Writing about his recent arrival in Germany, he said: “Africa’s traditions are vivacious and unconfined to museums and opera houses. Yet, both places are akin: Europe – insular, chauvinistic – is Africa overlaid with material wealth, with an inscribed history.”

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There should be an alternative to the government narrative... the media has this” Tsedale Lemma, Ethiopia the editor in chief of Addis Standard is not afraid to stand her ground against state censorship.

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Okwiri Oduor

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Prize-winner who dares to be different

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Nonku Phiri Rebel who has found her voice Phiri’s voice first got her noticed during a school detention when she was 18. Years later, and armed with her degree in marketing and strategy, she is still kicking back, against music bosses this time. Despite being a new kid on the block, she opened the stage for hip-hop luminary Yasiin Bey (Mos Def ) when he toured South Africa. Describing herself as very shy and going by her alter ego, Jung Freud, Phiri is hard at work on a new album. Phiri plans to travel around Africa and explore her current obsession with Malian and Ethiopian jazz. “I would like my music to be a bridge and help young people find their voice.”

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Few have achieved so much in so short a time as Okwiri Oduor. The 24-year-old Nairobi-based writer has just won the Caine Prize for her short story ‘My Father’s Head’. Oduor’s work straddles rural and urban universes, and is an exquisite take on memory, and the loss of it. It is interspersed with gorgeous descriptions of food and cooking – an oblique echo, perhaps, of Kenyan writer, Binyavanga Wainaina. Her novella The Dream Chasers was highly commended at the Commonwealth Book Prize in 2012 when she was just 21 years old. Like Helen Oyeyemi before her, Oduor’s preference for new and experimental forms, rather than the well-worn social realist trope, marks her out as a writer to watch.

Her success also underlines the diversity of Nairobi’s publishing ecosystem, a decade after the advent of Kwani?, the pathbreaking Kenyan literary journal.

A large number of complementary journals, often online, have emerged.

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Launch-pad for a new generation The founder of Africa 2.0, a pan-African organisation of young leaders in business, politics and civil society, is pushing his generation to give back: “It’s about going the extra mile after the work day”. Toure prefers action to talk. Africa 2.0 worked with the World Bank on its plans to invest $129m in regional centres of excellence. Africa 2.0’s ‘Start-up Africa’ events have mentored 1,000 firms, and financed 100. the africa report

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Mboma, like several on our list, is a ‘repat’: an African who left the continent, only to return later, armed with expertise. Born in Kinshasa, and educated in Lubumbashi, he eventually moved to France at the end of the 1980s. After a stellar academic career that includes Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the University of Chicago Booth, he eventually moved to Singapore, to work for mining giant BHP Biliton, before being hired by Africa’s largest financial institution, Standard Bank, to run their operations in the DRC. While in Singapore he helped organise conferences bringing together Asian and African businesspeople, something he has continued to do on his return to the DRC by partnering with the Platinum Circle, a Singapore-based business group.

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Sia Tolno Singing past the hope and pain

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Sia Tolno’s latest album, African Woman, is a politically conscious collection of songs created with veteran Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen.

Born in Sierra Leone, Tolno was forced to flee the civil war at age 20 and found refuge in Conakry, where her powerful singing in local nightclubs quickly got her a record deal. She released her debut album Eh Sanga in 2009. My Life, released in 2011, focuses on painful moments of her past as much as it is a celebration of her life.

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the power seekers Meet the ruling party and opposition youth who are waiting in the wings

Buti Manamela

SACP comrade in power

Manamela is now deputy minister in South Africa’s presidency, working with ANC’s top brass, such as Jeff Radebe.

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A voice in opposition

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Soares now speaks for Mozambique’s RENAMO party in parliament, a critical voice as the gas money starts to roll in.

Botsalo Ntuane Inside the tent

Ismaïl Douiri Leading the charge for Morocco’s banks Douiri, 44, is Attijariwafa Bank co-CEO, and stands a good chance of replacing Mohamed El Kettani as chairman. He is most proud of helping Attijariwafa Bank become a regional group with subsidiaries in 23 countries. “Now is the time to look towards new geographies: we are now exploring the idea of entering English-speaking markets like Ghana or Nigeria”. Douiri has close ties with the Istiqlal Party, as does his family – both his father and brother have served as ministers.

The Botswana oppositionist is back to working with President Ian Khama.

Nelson Chamisa Ready and willing

The organising secretary of Zimbabwe’s MDC party could be a replacement for embattled leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Barthélémy Dias Rapid rise

A firebrand of Senegal’s Parti Socialiste, at 39, Dias is mayor of Sacre-Coeur and secretary of the National Assembly.

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Youthful aspirations

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Investors may shy away from the CAR, but KGroup has been the country’s largest private-sector employer through the ups and downs. Born in 1972, Kamach took over the management of the firm – active in the timber, services, distribution and real estate sectors – from his father in 2012. He is also a director of Commercial Bank of Central Africa and vice-president of the chamber of commerce. Kamach founded the Fondation Centrafricaine pour la Paix et la Démocratie, which launched think tank Fini Sêse (New Land) to find solutions to the political and social crises in the country.

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Awuku is moving up the hierarchy of Ghana’s NPP, and is also vice-chairman of the International Young Democrat Union.

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Lobna Jeribi A personal and political uprising

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Like father, like son: creating jobs and finding solutions in CAR

with a French phD, Lobna Jeribi chose business, not politics.

But the tunisian revolution of 2011 changed her path. this mother of two boys joined the social democrat party, ettakatol: 10 months later she was elected as a member of the constituent assembly and started work on the constitution.

Tanzania’s chief bean-counter CHADEMA party member Kabwe is head of the parliamentary accounts committee and a thorn in the side of the ruling party.

Serge Bouya

From bills to boats

Congo’s youngest MP is now the deputy director of the Pointe-Noire port.

Malika Bongo Ondimba Gabon’s insider princess

The President’s eldest daughter is married to the son of oil trader Sam Dossou. She was elected as deputy mayor of Akanda in December.

Juvénal Munubo DRC defender

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