Top 10 Most Famous Celebrity in Africa

Here’s a list of the top 10 personalities from Africa. All of them are using their fame to help people in need across Africa and the world.

1.Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the country’s first black head of state, an anti-apartheid activist, politician and statesman from South Africa who served as South Africa’s first president from 1994 to 1999.

2.Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic who is considered a pivotal figure in modern African literature. His first novel and his masterpiece Things Fall Apart occupy a pivotal place in African literature.

3.Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, better known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian English-language essayist, novelist, poet and playwright.

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4.Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu was a South African Anglican known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.  He was the first black African to serve as Bishop of Johannesburg.

5.Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the United Nations shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.

6.Aliko Dangote

Aliko Dangote GCON is a Nigerian businessman and industrialist. He is best known as the founder, chairman and CEO of the Dangote Group, West Africa’s largest industrial conglomerate.

7.Didier Drogba

Didier Yves Drogba Tibele is the all-time leading scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team and a former Ivorian professional footballer who played as a striker.

8.Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mphwelwa Mbeki is a South African politician who served as the second President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC).

9.Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, and in 2016, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

10.Mohamed Salah

Mohamed Salah is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or striker for Liverpool FC and captain of the Egyptian national team.

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