Portsmouth-UK: The President of Sierra Leone, Dr Julius Maada Bio, his Zambian Counterpart, President Hakainde Hichilema, alongside the first female Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, among others, have been announced as the winners in the 11th African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year – 2022. The trio emerged winners in the African of the Year, Political Leader of the Year and African Female Leader of the year categories, respectively.
The winners emerged with a combined total vote of over 15,000 and over 1 million active online engagements during the voting period, as at the close of the poll on Friday, December 2nd, 2022, at midnight Central African Time.
The poll, which has become the continent’s premium vote-based awards, attracted over 12,000 votes on the ALM website and over 3000 votes via email.
Winners for the 11th edition of the award shall be presented with the honour instruments on February 16th, 2022, during the annual African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Award ceremony, billed to hold in Port Louis, Mauritius.
The winners were unveiled by the Publisher of the Magazine, Dr Ken Giami, at the U.K. Head Office of the group. The announcement of the winners was preceded by the awards committee working with the editorial team to collate online and offline votes and submissions from the over 1 million subscribers/followership base of the publication.
Below is a list of winners and runners-up in the nine categories:
- African of the Year 2022
HE. Dr Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
HE. Hage Geingob, President of Namibia (Runner-up)
- African Female Leader of the Year 2022
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General, World Trade Organization, Nigeria
Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia (Runner-Up)
- African Educationist of the Year 2022
Dr Gertrude Nwangala Akapelwa, Founder & Vice-Chancellor, Victoria Falls University of Technology, Zambia
Mamokgethi Phakengas, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Runner-Up)
- African Industrialist of the Year 2022
Patrice Motsepe, Executive Chairman, Africa Rainbow Minerals, South Africa
Dr Deji Adeleke, Chairman, Pacific Holding (Runner-Up)
- African Political Leader of the Year 2022
HE. Hakainde Hichilema, President of Zambia
HE. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania (Runner-Up)
- African Philanthropist of the Year 2022
Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Executive Chairperson, Higher Life Foundation Zimbabwe
Mohammed Indimi, Chairman, Oriental Energy Resources, Nigeria (Runner-Up) - ALM Emerging African Leader of the Year 2022
Emma Theofilus, Deputy Minister of Information, Communication and Technology, Namibia
Ham Serunjogi, Co-Founder and CEO of Chipper Cash, Uganda (Runner-Up)
- Africa Peace & Security Leader of the Year 2022
Yankuba Drammeh, Chief of Defense Staff, Gambia
General Jean Bosco Kazura, Chief of Defence Staff of the Rwanda Defence Force (Runner-Up)
- African Energy Leader of the Year 2022
Patricia Simon-Hart, MD/CEO, Aftrac Limited, Nigeria
Leparan Gideon ole Morintat National Oil Corporation of Kenya(Runner-Up)
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