Nigerians dominated the Forbes' African person of the year, the official Forbes website announced.
In its' forbes africa page,Forbes made known that it hadnarrowed it's shortlist which was dominated by nigerians for the 2013 person of the year awards.
The awards is set to take place in Nairobi, Kenya at the beginning of December. An official voting is also opened to the public who can make selection of the individual they would approve worthy of receiving the award of the Person of the Year title 2013.
The shortlist comprising of 3 Nigerians, 1 South African and 1 Zimbabwean, is as follows.
*South African mining magnate, Patrice motsepe, planning on giving away giving more than half of his wealth over the next five years.
*Akinwumi Adeshina is Nigeria's minister of agriculture and his vision is to make Nigeria self sustaining , food producing nation and register 20 million farmers by 2015
*Aliko Dangote is Africa's richest man and his net worth has increased, allowing him to better the lives of Nigerians.
*Strive Masiyiwa is the founder of Global telecoms group, econet wireless, and through capernaum trust he educates thousands of zimbabwean orphans.
*Jim Ovia established Zenith Bank Group in 1990- now west africa's second largest financial services provider, his focus has turned to helping grow africa's budding 'techpreneurs.'
Now time to start voting, drop your votes for the Person of the Year as comments below:
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