Top 6 Most Popular Young Africans

 Lupita Nyong’o

Lupita is a Kenyan-Mexican Actress born March 1^st, 1983. She began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film East River and subsequently returned to Kenya to star in the television series Shuga (2009–2012). She had her first feature film role as Patsey in Steve McQueen’s historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She became the first Kenyan and Mexican actress to win an Academy Award.

Nyong’o made her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the critically acclaimed play Eclipsed (2015), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Nyong’o starred as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Black Panther (2018).

In addition to acting, Nyong’o supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment and working for animal rights. In 2014, she was named the most beautiful woman by People.

 

Isabel dos Santos 

Isabel is an Angolan businesswoman, Africa’s richest woman and the eldest child of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos. She started her first business, opening the Miami Beach Club, one of the first night clubs and beach restaurants on the Luanda Island. Over a period of nearly 20 years she expanded her business interests, leading to the creation of several holdings, in Angola and mostly abroad, making substantial investments in high-profile entreprises, especially in Portugal.

According to research by Forbes, her net worth had reached more than three billion US dollars, making her Africa’s first billionaire woman in 2013. A Forbes magazine article described in 2013 how Isabel dos Santos acquired her wealth by taking stakes in companies doing business in Angola, suggesting that her wealth comes almost entirely from her family’s power and connections. In November 2015, the BBC named Isabel dos Santos as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.

Anthony Joshua 

Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, MBE is a British professional boxer. He is currently a unified world heavyweight champion, having held the IBF title since 2016, the WBA (Super) and IBO titles since 2017, and the WBO title since March 2018. At regional level he held the British and Commonwealth heavy weight titles from 2014 to 2016.

Joshua represented England at the 2011 World Championships as an amateur in the super-heavyweight division, winning a silver medal; he also represented Britain at the 2012 Olympics, winning gold. Joshua is the second British boxer, after James DeGale, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as being the first British heavyweight to do so.

As of February 2018, Joshua is ranked as the world’s best active heavyweight by The Ring, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and BoxRec. Known for having exceptional punching power, he has finished all but one of his fights to date by knockout. He was born October 15^th, 1989.

 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiechie

Chimamanda is a world class Enugu born Nigerian novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer. She has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013); the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014). She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [who] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature” and also got awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant.

Adichie studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half, then left Nigeria for the United States to study communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia.  As a black African in America, Chimamanda was suddenly confronted with what it meant to be a person of color in the United States. Race as an idea became something that she had to navigate and learn. She writes about this in her novel Americanah.

She received a bachelor’s degree from Eastern,with the distinction of summa cum laude in 2001. She completed a master’s degree in creative writing at John Hopkins University, Master of Arts Degree in African Studies from Yale University, Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and was also awarded a 2011–12 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

 

Wizkid

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun professionally known as Wizkid is a Nigerian Songwriter and Singer. Signed under Banky W’s record Label Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E) in 2009, he rose to prominence in 2010 with the release of ‘Holla at Your Boy’ from his debut studio Album ‘Superstar’ in 2011.

Wizkid gained international recognition following his collaboration with Drake on the global hit, “One Dance”, which reached number one in 15 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. In addition to his solo work, Wizkid has collaborated with several other artists across the world.

He was ranked 5th on Forbes and Channel O’s 2013 list of the Top 10 Richest/Bankable African Artists. In February 2014, Wizkid became the first ever Nigerian musician to have over 1 million followers on Twitter. ^]Moreover, he became the first Afrobeats artist to appear in the 2018 Guinness World Records for his contribution to Drake’s hit song “One Dance”

He was born 16^th July, 1990 and currently runs his own label imprint, Starboy Entertainment.

 

Halima Aden

The 20 years old Somali model is noted for being the first woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, where she was a semi-finalist Following her participation in the pageant, she received national attention and was signed to IMG Models in 2016.

Halima was the first hijab-wearing model to walk international runways and to be signed to a major agency. she made her debut at the New York Fashion Week for Yeezy Season 5 in February 2017, she became the first hijab-wearing model on the cover of Vogue Arabia in June 2017 She also became the first hijab-wearing model on an Allure cover, for their July 2017 issue.

Her incredible success within this short period makes it evident that Halima is on her way to becoming the first ever hijabwearing super model.

Halima Aden (born September 19, 1997) is an American fashion model. She was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, and moved to the united States at 6 years old. During her stay in Apollo High School, she was voted prom and home coming queen and is currently a student at St. Cloud State University.