President Paul Kagame has emerged among seventy most powerful people on the planet and among the 2011 personalities by the Forbes Africa Magazine.
Kagame was named on the list for having led Rwanda’s transformation after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi which has led the country to become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.
President Kagame has been named among the 20 other most African personalities.
Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor Central Bank of Nigeria, emerged as the most powerful person in Africa.
The list includes Activits,Economists, Politicians and nobel laureates.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Pedro Veron Pires, former President of Cape Verde, the late Professor Wangari Mathai, Nobel Prize Kenyan environmental and political activist also feature on the list.
The list includes; Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, Goodluck Johnson, the President of Nigeria, John Atta Mills, the President of Ghana, Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda and Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian Street Vendor who set himself on fire, a move that triggered the widespread Arab spring revolutionaries.
“Kagame is also driving the East African Community initiative, a renowned Publication New Statesman named him as one of the 50 people in the world who matter,” reads the Forbes magazine.
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