RECORD BREAKERS

… Men & Women Transforming Lives

100 AFRICAN RECORD BREAKERS

They are great African men and women, whose power, talent and moral examples are daily transforming lives in different fields. They are still making exploits in their respective endeavours and appear not yet spent. In no particular order, ESIM serves you an exclusive compendium of 100 African Record Breakers.

LEADERSHIP AND REVOLUTIONARIES

1.  Joyce Banda (Malawi)

2.  Koffi Annan (Ghana)

3.  Nelson Mandela (South African)

4.  Ali Bongo Ondimba (Gabon)

5.  Godswill Obot Akpabio (Nigeria)

6.  Francis Deng (South Sudan)

7.  Fatou Bensouda (Gambia)

8   Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria)

9.  Babatunde Fashola (Nigeria)

10. Mohamed Morsi (Egypt)

11. Jacob Zuma (South Africa)

12. Paul Kagame (Rwanda)

13. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia)

14. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (South Africa)

15. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigeria)

16. Ahmed Issack Hassan (Kenya)

17. Leyma Gbowee (Liberia)

18. Rebessa Kadaga (Uganda)

19. Obiageli Ezekwesili (Nigeria)

20. Thuli Madonsela (South Africa)

ENTREPRENEURS AND THINKERS

21. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin (Ethiopia)

22. Gervais Koffi Djondo (Togo)

23. Tokyo Sexwale (South Africa)

24. Ahmed Heikal (Egypt)

25. Tidjane Thiam (Cote D’Ivoire)

26. Thierry Tanoh (Cote D’Ivoire)

27. Donald Kaberuka (Rwanda)

28. Tony Elemelu (Nigeria)

29. Moise Katmbi Chapwe (DR Congo)

30. Momadou Toure (Cameroun)

31. Mostafa Terrab (Morocco)

32. Issad Rebrab (Algeria)

33. Salwa Idressi Akhannouch (Morocco)

34. Aliko Dangote (Nigeria)

35. Jean Louis Billon (Cote D’Ivoire)

36. Lamido Sanusi (Nigeria)

37. Mike Adenuga (Nigeria)

38. Jams Mwangi (Kenya)

39. Sheikh Mohammed Al-Amoudi (Ethiopia)

40. Shafiq Gabr (Egypt)

41. Evelyn Oputu (Nigeria)

42. Henry-Claude Oyima (Gabon)

43. Acha Leke (Cameroun)

44. Abdelwahab Ben Ayed (Algeria)

45. Jim Ovia (Nigeria)

46. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (Nigeria)

HEROES AND PIONEERS

47. Denis Mukwege (DR Congo)

48. Chouchou Namegabe (DR Congo)

49. Kandeh Yumkella (Sierra Leone)

50. Jay Naidoo (South Africa)

51. Michael Sidebe (Mali)

52. Hadeel Ibrahim (Sudan)

53. Wanjiru Kamau-Reutenberg (Kenya)

54. Grace Machel (Mozambique)

55. Nduka Obiagbena (Nigeria)

56. Amodou Ba (Sengal)

58. Salim Amin (Kenya)

HOLYMEN, BUILDERS AND TITANS

59. T. B. Joshua (Nigeria)

60. Desmond Tutu (South Africa)

61. Ronald Mwenda Mutebi (Uganda)

62. Enoch Adeboye (Nigeria)

63. David Oyedepo (Nigeria)

64. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II (Asantehene, Ghana)

65. Duncan Williams (Ghana)

66. W. F. Kumuye (Nigeria)

67. Philip Emeagwali (Nigeria)

68. Calestous Juma (Kenya)

69. Edna Adan Ismali (Somali)

70. Juliana Rotich (Kenya)

71. Herman Chiney-Hesse (Ghana)

72. Maryke Labuschagne (South Africa)

73. Tebello Nyokong (Lesotho)

74. Jalani Aliu (Nigeria)

ARTISTS AND ENTERTAINERS

75. Youssou N’Dour (Sengal)

76. Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)

77. Charlize Theron (South Africa)

78. Psquare (Nigeria)

79. Jonathan Shajeiro (South Africa)

80. Tuface Idibia (Nigeria)

81. Chimamanda Adichie (Nigeria)

82. Ozwald Boateng (Ghana)

83. Precious Moloi-Motsepe (South Africa)

84. Ayi Knee Armah (Ghana)

85. David Adjaye (Ghana)

86. Angelique Kidjo (Benin)

87. Tinie Tempah (Nigeria)

88. Ajuma Nasenyana (Kenya)

89. Jim Coetzee (South Africa)

90. Emmanuel Jai (South Sudan)

91. Lamine Diack (Sengal)

92. Didier Drogba (Cote D’Ivoire)

93. Issa Hayatu (Cameroun)

94. David Rudisha (Kenya)

95. Oscar Pistorius (South Africa)

96. Yegla Loroupe (Kenya)

97. Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)

98. Stephen Kiprotich (Uganda)

99.  Don Jazzy (Nigeria)

100. Kanu Kwankwo (Nigeria)